I'm also very sad to hear this. :( As far as I can see, Anart has been very helpful here, and certainly to me; she's one of the last people I'd expect to give up the Work. I wish her luck in her new pursuits.
Though I have to say, I don't understand how anyone could completely turn away from it. How can you go through life without seeing, or at least keeping in the back of your mind, the mechanicalness of man and yourself after observing it and learning about it? I can hardly call myself a good obyvatel, but no matter how low I've gotten in my life, the knowledge that something's "off" with the world, that we're all run by programs and that we CAN change if we try, has never let me abandon what I've learned here, even if I've had to go back and relearn what I thought I knew.