>>11662608People hate jumping through hoops, dude. When captcha was first created, a lot of people stopped using 4chan (growth continued anyway, because the internet was still growing and migrations happened). A ton of people hate the new captcha and we've seen more than a few people say they hate it enough to stop posting here.
I think most significantly, we've seen how people hate (or can't) updating their browsers, because earlier this year a secruity feature expired, which disallowed a lot of people from posting on anything using cloudflare. This coincides with 4chan having a pretty big decline in posts.
I mean, go loook at /g/ and /v/ and how laughed at how the majority of people are still using Windows 10, despite shit like steam no longer supporting it.
Every bump, no matter how tiny it is, can be a signficant inconvenience to people. So just not being on the front page is enough for people to not give a shit.
personally, i don't like using add ons because they don't always work and there's some days i don't bother to even look at the catalog. I do use the thread watcher though (and made various modifications to my browsers)
BTW, typing more than two sentences is enough to put people off from reading a post. If you didn't bother to spend the 25 seconds to read my entire post, can i call you dumb?
