Because some people are realizing it really is not worth the stress, the fretting and potential heartache.
This is also a lot of energy the creators are expending. It can be a punch to the gut that a whole month worth of effort for some is shot to the four winds, it’s discouraging and it’s so much output for little to no return.
Especially when it adds fuel to the fire for people who just want to be toxic jerks and hang and dangle the win over other people’s heads in a HAHA YOU LOST!!! manner, who then call people who have gripes about such behavior as being ‘Salty’.
Like I’m going to be called, no doubt, I frankly do not care, if someone wants to call me salty for having ‘lost’, that’s on them.
I’m taking this as an opportunity to instead improve on my own mask of creation, and be content I placed 3rd in my poll for the semi-finals, that’s a win to me.
I’ve made an amazing piece of artwork, made new content, and have a new vid up on my youtube for my efforts. I’ve given people cake, but I can understand people who may not be as magnanimous.
It was very different when the contests were (A) ongoing, concurrent with the rest of the series and (B) more or less anonymous, as it wasn’t hosted online within the fandom, but rather submissions were sent to LEGO to be judged internally, or at the very least left up to RNG, not mob rule, no spite, no nothing.
It was clean and fair.
The only reason I would not want these to continue is because it’s fueling an unhealthy atmosphere, and I don’t think a literal trickle of new stuff made canon is worth the miasma.
But those are just my thoughts on the matter.