Losing players: bad. Gaining scholarships in recruiting: very good
Attrition in college football has always been prevalent. It's just that Twitter is around now for people to give out immediate hot takes whenever a player gets injured, transfers, or becomes ineligible. It's just added to the message board fire that has been around for awhile and magnifies every personnel loss for a program even more than it did before.
Instant (over)reactions might have increased as of late, but the education of fans of the ins and outs of a program has also increased along with it. Now there seems to be as much talk about scholarship numbers in a respective recruiting class as there is talk about actual recruits.