oaksoft's main contribution to the forum was absolutely ruining threads. He seemed to mature out of not using the multi-quote and posting five times in a row, but he just posted about everything as contrarily as possible. Anything he'd post about was argued to its tiniest detail and he had to be right, all the time. Threads were absolutely ruined in the process. Worried about your energy prices and want to find or share worthwhile advice? oaksoft's posting endlessly belittling anyone who's not wrapped up like they're trekking to the North Pole, or anyone disagreeing with any aspect of anything he's saying. Same goes for the strikes thread where you might have some concerns about the way things are but no, here are some screeds and some cry laughing emojis if you don't think what he thinks.
The fact he claimed to be retired and happy to be without human interaction probably says a lot. He's not gone because people disagreed with the things he said, he's gone because it was impossible to actually have a viable message board if you disagreed with him, because he wouldn't let anything go. The fact that historically the opinions he held seemed completely fluid had no bearing on how vociferously he'd argue them. I don't think he was capable of letting things go and I'm not going to speculate on why that is, but it's not something that anyone should mourn.