Don't get me wrong: If we have the same perspective on how the forum works, that's great.
But I'll try to elaborate more, why we are discussing in my opinion:
You ranted
in this post and then finished your post with "I've outgrown it."
Thats neither a question nor an invitation to discuss something. To me it felt like an athlete announcing he retires. Therefore I asked what you expected with your post.
Did you maybe want a reaction from us? A pledge from us to you to -please god- still like the trope?
Some could say: Why should other users bother, if it seemed from the intonation that you already finished caring. It felt like a goodbye from you. That felt rather unusual in a forum context. And therefore I tried to ask what you meant.
But instead of clarifying what you wanted to say you diverted. Now you are even trying to push the topic to "my strange vulnerability" - whatever you mean with it, but it feels like YOU are getting personal here - and it seems we are discussing on different layers.
I'll finish the discussion here, cause we could be already annoying other people.
Whatever you intended with your post
here, "
vulnerable me" didn't understand it (properly) -sorry for that and then asking- , but to be honest, now I don't care anymore.