Oh yeah this is definitely true, I'm guessing my definition of leaving is having emptied their accounts and not done any actions whatsoever since, having an autovoter running with no influence wouldn't count as being here in that case. If they've made a post expressing why they're leaving or throwing dirt at Steem because of the bear market and decline in price being a main reason they got frustrated and left would make it obvious why they came back - and even so Steem would still welcome them.

Like I said though, I'd rather spend time and invest in new users than those who left with empty promises or got butthurt because of something and didn't follow through with what they said they were going to do. I'm mainly talking about curators here who also posted and wanted to grow to "support many others" but quickly ran away when things got tough.