The most interesting thing is that people care.
In most cases, if a magazine I'd enjoyed for years went sour, I'd just stop buying and forget about it.
But Pilot's readers seem to be tremendously loyal - so much so that we're complaining in public about the degradation of something that was as much part of our flying as our logbooks and our headsets.
I resent the way something I enjoyed so much has been dragged down. I resent it enough to complain, in the hope that some of what Pilot once had can be restored.