This is un unexpected topic to read :-) I appreciate your kindness, Russ; I see that we both registered on this forum 20 years ago; back then dealing with English was a bigger struggle for me, but perhaps I felt that this place was worth to stick around. It is surely sad that a lot of members are no longer with us. I think the reason I stayed here all this time is that people like you, Gary and others share a lot of life experience, not limited to music. Perhaps it could be called "depth" of conversations. If it was only about how to download a style or which keyboard to buy, that would be just data.
So, I'll take this chance to congratulate people who are still here with the fact that we went that far; the internet is very fast today in many senses, it's also noisy, and it is lucky to have a place which exists on its own and has its own chemistry. You've been contributing a lot here, Nigel had a lot of respect for you, and I'm always interested in reading your posts.