As Bruce Wayne rightly pointed out - no one is making the 67 odd million passengers fly with Ryanair. They have so much other choice if they so desire. One thing about our species - we love to hate. Nothing makes us feel better about ourselves than a good whine about issues we know nothing about. this can be regularly advertised on pprune.
Regarding the atrocious scenes at STN, i agree it was a terrible situation. However I was lead to believe that RYR had no groundstaff - swissport look after all things blue+yellow at STN so surely they were the ones not to open the bag drop-off points?? Unless at STN they have their own ryanair bag drop off points, run by ryanair employees - i fail to see how this is indeed ryanairs fault?
Also yes I believe it depends on the base as to your flying hours per year.