Have dropped Joshua as well since he turned more and more annoying trying to capitalize on memes.
And Linus... well i think everyone that follows/ed him knows about the gamers nexus incident which was just the tipping point after, as you said, he got more and more arrogant
As a tech interested kid, thinking about buying 10 btc for 3$/btc just because i liked the idea.
But truth is, i probably would've lost the keys long ago or sold at 200$ or so