If you announce you’re leaving, and then come back to respond to everyone’s comments, you’re not doing a great job of leaving.
Previously I saw someone say, “This isn’t LAX, departures don’t have to be announced.”
In this last year, I have thought about leaving this board several times, most recently when the latest version of HIMU decided to shit up the place with repeated, contiguous, angry posts and at first everyone seem so welcoming. It felt tragic, it felt like the death of this site until you all chose to engage and confront, and finally assign a time-out to that child. That finally gave me some hope that the site is not yet dead.