A little of both? A lot of minor things plus cooling interest in general. I couldn't get into TFP when it was on (the Cons were more interesting to me, the Bots were just perpetually "ignore Dad, do The Thing anyway, things go wrong, apologize to Dad for doing The Thing, claim to have so much respect for him...next week, rinse and repeat" and I just couldn't. It got annoying. Granted, I only got half-way through Season 1 before Life got in the way, but I wasn't brokenhearted about never managing to get back to it. I enjoyed the Bayverse movies even less. And I've sworn off the comics. In pretty much every way, they've gone in directions I just wouldn't enjoy. I got enough of what was going on in the comics from friends' rants and ravings to know that. So I wasn't really interacting with anyone re: TF even though there was plenty of TF chatter going around. Plus somewhere along the line, I lost confidence in the background and personality choices I'd made for G1 Wheeljack whom I used to write and rp a LOT. I started doubting and backing off from them and so writing/playing him fell apart for me.

Health issues played a lot in things too, leading me to lose interest in a LOT of things because I just couldn't cope.

Yeah, I need to give RB another go. Like with TFP, I got half-plus the way through S1 when life got in the way and I never got back to it. It's really cute and some of the stuff is just ridiculous even by G1 standards (especially that ep with the flying lobsters or whatever they were). Heatwave's attitude in general bugged me, as did Kade's, and their subsequent interactions were kinda hard to watch. I'm sure they both got better as the series went on - there were hints of it even in what I saw. And LOL yeah, I remember when Doc Greene was first intro'd, it drove me nuts bc "who is that?! I know that voice!" So that was fun. ^,^