I like how biggest whiners are the ones who actually lost their puppet from position of power within the faction.
If entire faction voted him out, there was nothing Erzie could do to save his hide save to maybe destroy his own faction from within. Alternative would be said people leaving and making replacement faction of their own which results in the same outcome. Such matters had precedence with multiple iterations of Zoner Trading Consortium (old 4.85 story)
I wish IRG's new leadership a better, more efficient run.