I wasn't privileged enough to be around long enough to get to know the Guv properly, which is something I regret.
Perhaps you guys are visiting a different forum to me. I find WT to be an open, friendly, entertaining, educational and inspiring place to frequent. I don't care what scale or gauge anyone is modelling. I read pretty much all the threads, whatever they're about. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, I am a member of RMWeb, but I don't like it half as much as this place. RMW is the noisy place, WT is the place for like-minded folk to have a chinwag, a laugh or two, and to share in our enjoyment of modelling railways in all their myriad forms.
So, whether you're modelling Gauge 3 or T scale, obscure Australian branch lines or the main line out of Paddington, blue and grey, things with yellow ends or sky blue pink, it's all grist to the mill. We all share a passion for this hobby of railway modelling.
So a lot of S7 members have migrated here. WT is a natural fit for many of them, with the right mix of engineering and bodgery! I don't think there is a plan for a putsch. We're all just modellers, like everyone else here. I've yet to meet an S7 modeller who considers themselves superior to anyone else. In the end, it's just another wheel profile/track gauge, so what's the issue? I don't understand, but then it's getting late on a Saturday. Perhaps I should leave this post and sleep on it.