I can’t disagree with much of what you have said there tbf. I think I lost a lot of that leeway myself with how we treated Big Eric. It made me realise that as fans we ask too much of people and even if we get everything it doesn’t stop them being spat out in the end. Heckingbottom has done himself no favours with his words or deeds since leaving.
The "I've moved to secure my family's future finance" does my head in, there's people living with kids on 1k a month and they are just fine