The experience of being LDS is an intense experience. It isn't like many Christian churches, where you sit in a pew for an hour a week, and then go about your own life the rest of the time. Being a Mormon requires committment to accept callings that may be above your comfort level. Expectations of keeping commandments, serving, doing family history, attending the temple, etc., can overwhelm many people - particularly if they mistake the busy stuff with the actual gospel.
And I think that many fall away because they overwhelm themselves with too much trying to save their own hides, rather than experiencing the atonement and allowing that experience to then lead them to the service and actions they should do.
Others leave because they forget the testimonies they once received, and begin believing the words of those who oppose us. If they believe we are of the devil, then their efforts against us are doing God a favor. Sadly, they do not realize that they do the same thing that Jesus told his apostles would happen to them, as apostates would kill them thinking they were doing God a service (Matthew 24).
Either way, an intense feeling fills them. They lose the feeling most LDS experience, of love and faith (if they ever experienced it in the first place); and replace it with an anger that this intense Mormon experience has ruined their lives and they seek others from suffering as they feel they have.
Sadly, the anger engendered at anti-Mormon/ex-Mo sites seems to become a growing cancer that leaves them smelling putrid from the gangrenous remains of their tortured souls. Instead of excising the cancer/anger, they insist on living with it, as a badge of honor against those they feel have betrayed them.
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