Looks to me like Eliot Lefebvre's written something of a self-cathartic piece there - the fact that he brings up how he dealt with his own father's passing makes it pretty clear he's chosen his own path of how to handle the closure of CoH.
I can understand why he's gone off on a bit of a rant : because he's reached his own balancing point he's expecting others to do the same, and with that expectation in mind, he seems almost to take personal offence to the fact that some folk still have the hope he left behind.
Jealousy perhaps? Or sympathy? Possibly both. Losing CoH wasn't easy for any of us, and because we're all individuals, we all must deal with it in our own way. Eliot's found his way, and I think he's simply trying to pass on what he learned along that way. That's laudable, but it overlooks the fact that some of us did not, and will not accept that the loss of CoH was final.
He's right to say that he had to accept his father's passing because 'the alternative was dumb', but a video game is not a person. In a very real way, CoH still exists completely unchanged on each and every one of our hard drives. The game is not currently active, sure, but it certainly is NOT dead in the way people die. As a digital entity, CoH is merely currently dormant, so it's perfectly understandable for many people to outright refuse to accept that CoH is 'history'.
Eliot's good people, and he knows he's stuck his neck on a block here to an extent, because he's fully expecting rants and flames back at him. So while he and we may differ in how we regard the future of CoH, we should never forget that the only reason he stuck his neck out at all is because he loved CoH just as much as we do.
