Oscar 100 - people losing interest?

One local amateur who put together 2.4GHz and 10GHz gear for Oscar 100 has now had enough fun and is instead converting it to a /P station for terrestrial activity sessions. I wonder if this is a trend?

People enjoy the challenge briefly, have a few weeks of fun, then say bye bye. By now I was expecting the satellite to be very busy, but it is not. As they say, "the journey is more important than the destination".

Perhaps for appliance operators it is too much of a challenge - you need to be keen to get a station together and a fat cheque book does not work.