Well, at least you noticed how low MacRumors has sunk in its reputation. When you claim to be an Apple centric site but your membership is overwhelmingly anti-Apple it raises red flags as to what the real purpose of the site is. Real Apple centric web sites and their members took notice a long time ago.
I am not old school MR, so I don't know what it was like in the good ol' days. True, there are some trolls, but they are on every site. What I see are some Apple fans who no longer
just tow the line when it comes to Apple. Fair or not, Apple set a level of expectation that wasn't being met by other companies. That was then. More recently, those companies have started to equal, and in some cases, surpass Apple in certain areas.
Apple is still a company that moves the needle. Being that company, everything you do is overly scrutinized. Samsung is starting to get a taste of that now.
Back then, Apple existed in a virtual vacuum. There was nothing to really compete with what they had to offer. Today, there is an endless array of products that compete with Apple's offerings. The companies that make those products have had to 'step up their game' to compete. In varying degrees, they've been successful. I think the Apple fan is only expressing discontent because they feel Apple has rested on it laurels a bit. People have come to expect, unrealistically, Apple to create something extraordinary every year. When it doesn't happen they get disappointed.
I personally think Apple is great at some things, good at others, and horrible at a few. That doesn't make me, or anyone else for that matter, anti-Apple; just more critical.
With all that said, there are still trolls - both for and against Apple. Sometimes they make for entertaining banter.