I'm still that guy, but yeah I'd rather watch from home. Hell, in the middle of a workday I was in the 995 txhsfb thread the other day and someone posted a livestream of Allen vs. Prosper, ended on a missed FG. Football at any level is fun to watch, so long as the teams are evenly matched.
I concur with your opinion that some schools just don't have the juice for FBS. Idaho relegated itself down from FBS and is doing much better as a result. I'm not sure who at Sam and SFA believed they were ready to make the jump, but perhaps they accounted for the growing pains and these grotesque transitions were viewed as a necessary sacrifice in order to become the next Stark Vegas. Who the hell knows? Meanwhile you see UTRGV out of nothing (technically UT-Pan Am had a football program back in like the 1950's) having a successful inaugural season in a right-sized stadium for a 1M+ media market, and if the program continues to have on-field and financial success it would be a good candidate to make the jump to FBS, the way Texas State did. A place like San Marcos, it makes a lot of sense. Huntsville, not so much. A population center like Hidalgo County is closer to a San Marcos than a Huntsville. I'd like to see Sacramento State jump to FBS too.
I'm rambling at this point, but to bring this back to your objection, I think with the trend of programs jumping from FCS to FBS you're gonna have a few swings and misses, but overall I haven't felt like it has eroded the quality of college football.
You don't spend your day on 20 page threads slut shaming some woman because her husband's agent had the audacity to put out (or accept) feelers on a new job? Maybe you're not taking football seriously enough.