Jay,
Glad your palsy is getting better, fwiw.
For the rest: I'm wondering whether people's concerns about security etc would be satisfied if UT ceased to exist- particularly the loud complainants who don't contribute a bean to the running of UT but still regard themselves as aggrieved customers. Obviously I'm not referring to you there.
Also FWIW: while it is possible to read Michel's post as an excuse, it seems out of character IMHO. You could also read it as part of the deliberations of a man who has poured his all into UT, fighting governments, foregoing vacations, remaining silent in the face of overt provocations, feeling somewhat little let down by the lack of financial support and by the willingness of people to believe the worst and to hold him to far higher standards than those shown in other boards (try insulting the sysop of other boards the way people have insulted Michel here and you'd be in orbit in a microsecond) ... and who is now on vacation for the first time and enjoying the messages of goodwill sent his way.
In the past I've suggested that people need to look in the mirror: on this occasion I think people need to stop admiring themselves in the mirror and consider how much "give and take" there is in their relationship with UT.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1