Its good and proper to give genuine thanks, credit and cheers when its due.
But what do you do when you've slowly watched the technical quality and community integrity erode from former standards? How can you see trends like that and still have the same level of support as better days? Don't forget, these people aren't open source volunteers, they are all getting paid, some possibly alot more than you, to build this game.
I generally prefer not to lay myself over other random internet people, i like talking about features, experiences, stuff i have a direct connection to, and also do my appreciation with my wallet rather than attention seeking forum posts.
I only replied because its a bit sad. Its not even right now in the immediate, from maybe about this time last year, or earlier, frontier completely dropped off elite. The amount of attention to the game frontier itself was creating was much more in the past.