When he does retire, what are the chances that you'll get a conservative rector?
Is your bishop a revisionist? Because if s/he is, your chances of getting an orthodox priest are greatly reduced. S/he plays a big role in rector hiring. Your deployment officer reserves the right to yank resumes of candidates that s/he deems unfit for the diocese. And you'll never know whose resumes were pulled. Furthermore, the bishop can say no on a candidate and you don't have a say.
Serving on a rector search post-Vickie Gene hastened my departure from then-ECUSA, now-TEC. What an eye opener!
And that's precisely what happened to us. Our former ECUSA parish used to be conservative (relatively speaking for suburban Atlanta - but it was liveable for orthodox believers and the rector was tolerant of divergent views.)
Then our rector retired and we got a new guy. The Atlanta diocese is ultra-liberal (the new bishop is one of Griswold's pets and was sent to Lincoln) and you couldn't find an orthodox priest in this diocese now with "a pair o' patent double million magnifyin' gas microscopes of hextra power."
So I don't think the author of this piece is being realistic when he chastises some of us for leaving. There is no strategic bridge left in this diocese.