Similar things are happening in the competitive programming world.

Quite a lot of people are not happy they aren't elite anymore, and many have spent years to decades to arrive here.

Simply put you invest years of your life to establish a kind of distinction over others, and that goes away. That hurts.

But its not something surprising. Most of these competitive programming problems were actually English languages puzzles, because you couldn't dial up the mathematical difficulty anymore making it a fields medal problem. And in most cases in simple language weren't even that hard to begin with, and you could look up solutions to these problems in an hour of Google searching.