Plenty of former Mormons just drift away or move on. A few outspoken ones are sufficient for Mormons to smugly declare that apostates just can't leave the LDS Church alone. In practice, it is the outspoken former members that get labeled "apostates" and the ones who just go their way are called something else (or nothing at all).
The "apostates can't leave the LDS Church alone" thing has become a rod with which to smite. It is kind of self-fulfilling as well, as someone carping about how you can't leave their organization alone can contribute to a desire to lash out at that organization.
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"Do not despise the words of prophets, but test everything; hold fast to what is good; " 1 Thess. 5:21 (NRSV)
We all trust our own unorthodoxies.
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