Yeah, that's all fair enough. I'm not bothered as much as you, but to some extent that's probably because the comic is automatically filling in gaps for me (Though you never, that I recall, get one long exposition of things going south. It's bits and pieces told by different characters, their own stories. The fact that these are usually horrendous and awful is what leads me to think that people don't much like talking about that time). There are definitely some things that could be better though, for sure, and the only way around some of it is to make excuses.