Seeing Rootology leave immediately brought to mind
User:NoSeptember/Leaving and
WP:DIVA.
In this thread, EricBarbour says Rootology "never caused oceans of tedious and embarrassing dramah."
He deleted the pages in his user space, wrote a user space essay and redirected his user page there, fully protected his talk page (with a dramatic protection summary), and placed {{
retired}} at the top. It was certainly dramatic by any reasonable person's standards and I was certainly embarrassed by his childish behavior.
Was his retirement in itself an "ocean" of drama? No. For the full body of water, you would need to look at his contributions over the past few months, especially in the project namespace.
One might argue that it's acceptable to behave like this if it's a true retirement, but does anyone honestly believe that it is?