And deadminning is a much bigger deal than adminning by its nature.
That alone is a problem. The hoops that one must jump through to become an admin establish it as a big deal, even when we say it isn't.
The hoops have gotten bigger and bigger over time.
It used to be, someone who'd been around and reliable had a shot.
Now, you have to get some group behind you (a pov pushing group or otherwise) to pad the vote count, you have to have not raised the ire of certain self-proclaimed "vandal fighters" by contradicting their trigger-happy and incivil behavior, and you have to satisfy an increasingly mind-bogglingly high edit count requirement.
But every time we bring this up, the debate goes on for about a week, and then it vanishes and nothing is ever done.
Parker