Yes... as Dill said recently: [pappalardo] lost his marbles.
IMHO, I feel Anthony may have become a bit more introverted because of stupid responses from the industry to him changing... which is a total shame.
I think the "he doesn't skate like he used to" attitude is misguided... i've always thought that one of the cool things about skateboarding is that it is like art, or music in the sense that when someone has done work that has inspired a lot of people and they've become established in their respective medium they are then ingrained into that world; they have a place there... this small group of skateboarders aren't expected to produce as much footage/photo as they were a decade ago, but still have boards/shoes out... i.e Gino, Howard, Jeron, Chico, etc. (as if these guys haven't had their periods of keeping it low key) I guess I'm trying to say Anthony should without question be included in that category.
I'm going to sound repeated for those who read that new Dill/A.V.E interview but he brought up a good point... Pappalardo was a straight street skateboarding pioneer when he came up; more than just an "old good skateboarder". He was influencing professionals at the time he was amateur and started a lot of trick trends at that time. He is a true original, and so it should be no surprise that doesn't want to force himself to skate the same way he did as a kid many years later... all of the great ones evolve... people gave him way too much hate for evolving, changing his sound if you will... the stuff he was doing the last few years isn't necessarily "lazier" or "easier"... its just different.
As Dill said, Wenning was like this too... but he just got lost in drugs... not trying to be harsh to Wenning but it seems like people talk about him and Pappalardo as if they've gone through the same kind of change.
Anyway, I am yapping about all of this on the assumption that his apparent removal is a result of people thinking he isn't doing what he should.