Actually, I think you touched on the main issue right there! What drives people away is not that their interests lessesn, but that they increasingly despise "drama" inherent in the fandom. All the rampant emotionalism, noise, and lack of maturity, basically energy expended in activities that are essentially meaningless. They get too much of their fill in fan politics, and leave. It doesn't necessarily need to be focussed at them. In re-enacting the biggest difference between WW2 and Civil War Re-enactors is that the Unit Leaders in Civil War units are often elected by members of the unit, whereas members of the WW@ units are appointed for life. We often get civil war guys coming to our hobby to escape the politicking. Also in the WW2 group, badly led units fade over time.
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