time to leave livejournal?

Why does every online service I’ve ever joined go to pot about 6 months later? What with livejournal starting to delete pretty much any and all journals the right-wing wacko group Warriors for Innocence (no link; the website is offensive and fulll of spyware…google it yourself) ever complains about, removing journals that have pictures of nipples (even in the context of breast feeding), refusing to allow trackbacks, constant database crashes (what is it, 6 over the last 2 weeks?), voiceposts not working and refusing to accept 1-800 calls from Canada, constant problems with LJ Bot and lj posting, ownership by the corporate androids of Six Apart, the unfair way Russian users were (and are still? I’m not Russian so wouldn’t know) treated, etc, etc, etc, I am getting sick unto death of the petty games LJ Administration and Six Apart are playing with us (the LJ users) at the behest of money, political organizations, and advertisers. How long until one of my favourite syndications, bash, is removed from the website on grounds of…well, have a look at bash; I’m sure you can come up with an excuse LJ (or WFI) could use to remove them without my help. Unfortunately, I like my friends page, and my communities. I also like my entries to show up on the friends pages of all you fine folks; without that, I wouldn’t have any readers. I also like the way livejournal reads with jaws. This is lock-in worse than Microsoft! But the technical problems and drama are quickly getting to be too much for me. Anyone have any ideas? I need a solution that will let me edit the template easily (unlike blogger; it’s ugly, no matter what you do to it), something that can use API’s to keep my livejournal in sync with the new blog, and is cheap. It would also be nice if the administration of this service would just leave us all alone, and not push us to use service updates (like that awful, awful livejournal sidebar thing) that we don’t want and never will want. Anyhow, whatever happens, when my paid status expires in a few months, I will not be renewing it at any price; the journal will revert to a basic ad-free account.
Six Apart is obviously not putting the money it’s getting from paid members into servers and stability; I don’t know what it’s doing with it, and at this point, I don’t care.