Aside from some nastiness from Garrett/Harriergirl like 3 years ago, all the frustration with Azzer comes from his being absent for nigh on 2 years now. If the reason for his absence were that very frustration then he only has his own circular-arguing self to blame.
Not that I think his absence has anything to do with forums gripes. I assume Azzer is lazy and/or stubborn. Not stupid.
His initial extended absence had nothing to do with forum gripes alone from what I understand. There was
much more to it than that.
His current lack of active presence in the game is mostly due to people like those above who will do little else than flame him at every opportunity, as if/when he returns, as many people are vocally expressing resentment for him not being around for so long.
He's well aware that this is a game where we pay money into (many of us anyway for P-units at least), and he has done little development work with, and he's aware of the resentment that he'll get regarding the 'lack of service' that some players feel they should have 'deserved'.
Whether or not he will ever come back as an active figure or not, I'm not sure - I have a feeling he's working on things behind the scenes as I noticed during the round that two bush days had changed their names that hadn't been there in previous rounds (only reason I noticed it was that it stopped NBS from working for that tick! lol), but comments like the above definitely aren't going to encourage him to come back any quicker.