It wasn't hard for me to let AMC go at all, once Jeff was gone. GH taught me to be loyal to the actors, not the show. After what they did to so many of my favs... well - I realized that they couldn't really care less about the fans and will do what they want, no matter how much it hurts the show. After that, i watched onyl for the actors and if they left, I didn't worry to much about continuing to watch the show, if it wasn't delivering. ABC soaps have a tendency to be extremely biased and one-sided. GH is the Sonny & Jason "let's-glorify-the-mob" show. AMC is the the Ryan Lavery show and OLTL is the John is-a-hero-no-matter-what-show.
Maybe that's why I'm having such a hard time getting used to Y&R and a balanced soap that uses all of it's characters - lol! I"m too used to the biased, unbalanced writing of ABC soaps.