Honestly agreed. I was way more broken up about Fauna, Ame, and Mumei going. Gura's felt like she's been graduated in spirit for too long for this to feel like a shock or like it's taking something away, there's been too much time spent growing accustomed to her absences. I expect her to take the affiliate status. It's a good deal and I wouldn't blame her for taking the easy money in a job she's ambivalent towards.
Ame's announcement felt like a backstab, to be honest, since it was on both coattails of an amazing anniversary concert, which gave impression that girls will stuck together for some time, and than recent Aqua's graduation.
Mumei's was expected - I hoped she will be able to deal with her health problems, but, alas.
Fauna's announcement was absolutely unexpected, since she was consistently streaming, didn't had health problems and seemingly no problems with perms or whatever. I think hers is the only graduation, which I can fully chalk up to problems with management. The fact that unlike majority of graduated holomems she is very actively streaming kind of proves it.
Now, I wonder, when Gura's last stream will be, if (lol) it is the announcement. If it is before May, it might be a prove that this whole string of graduation is basically Cover cleaning their house and basically giving their less than stellar streamers a deadline to fix their problems or quit.
Anyhow, three high profile graduations in three months is not a good look for the company, by any means, even if those were expected.