I've been doing a lot less blog-reading since I started a full time day job, so I don't really have an opinion on whether the tone of DA has shifted in the last few months. But yes, that's why I was reading DA religiously for a long time.

I'd expect oracne to file it under "20% of the readers will hate the book no matter what". It falls, as you say, into that area where what you know as a logical thought process and what your emotions are yelling are two different things. You learn to deal with that, or you get out of the game.