Change of attitude regarding speedsubs

What's with the change of attitude regarding speed- and qualitysubs? You know. Back in the times when Aone (considered quality group) used to release like >15 subs/month and Naruto Anime was still somewhat cool and not a pile of fillers.
People used to watch "quality" subs. A-E, Triad, Aone, L-E etc. where the groups of choice for almost everything. The (in the beginning) few people who watched speedsubs were considered dumb or as newbies (well they often were).
But then, for no apparent reason, the way things used to be and the "scene" changed. Today almost everyone is gay -not for bridget- but for speedsubs. DB and other groups like this get their subs multiple times more often downloaded than stuff from groups like Lunar.
And in the meantime the majority of /a/ considers one to be a looser for watching Mai Otome from Static subs instead of Doremi (speedsubbers). Main arguments are like "lol fancy karaoke" and "I hope you enjoy your uberstyled subs". Well of course I keep thinking "Yeah and I hope you enjoyed your crappy encode and the even worse translation" but nevermind.

How do you explain this change of attitude?

>>11
Nothing personal, you make it sound like if really anyone on the internet can just sub their own series.  Fansubbing a series is a lot of work and dedication.  Sitting down and watching a show is one thing but having to pause it every other line so you can think about how to translate it and then writing it down is downright boring and tedious.

Then there's timing it.  Setting the karaoke is an one time thing for the standard OP/ED + the one or two special openers or enders.  But you gotta sit down, translate and time the episode, research whatever extra crap you need to, every week even when the episode is so shitty you want to cry.

I remember just a year or so after the first digi-subs appeared, it was like a rat race for the best quality and fastest subs of all the popular series.  This even went on for a quite while with two or three groups doing each series, maybe a day or two in between each group's version.  Then all the groups burned out.

I see this 'speed sub' wave as a carry away from the fans that came out to fill in the void that the burned out groups left.  People who knew what to do but didn't fansub before because of the rat race mentality; people who just went for simplicity and didn't burn out as quick.  And I think they set the trend we see now.

But yeah, this pretty much plays into what >>11 said but from a different angle.  I personally just wish they stop dicking with the hardsubs and just release 100K softsub files.  Win + win for everyone but the karaoke-ego-strokers I think.