So I don't know any real SEO'ers but you yourself said you got hit during panda and penguin hah nice one.
PR doesn't matter, I was just saying 1 website your showing us your great results doesn't mean shit and just makes you look like a jackass from boasting while others are saying they got hit.
I'm fine with SEO, I make a living off of it through clients in serious niches and my own sites ranking. I and others never said we can't rank and want to give up, when did we say this?
If you want to quote Scritty, yes you will see him complain about G00gle a lot and their jacked up results, so try again.
Were not saying SEO is dead, LISTEN...We're saying it's getting worse and worse and if you can't see how bad the results are and how skewed they are towards the big boys. If you haven't seen Amazon dominating and yelp and yellow pages dominating for local keywords as well as other garbage, you're pretty oblivious. It's only getting worse, is why people are pissed. I and others aren't saying give up SEO is dead, I'm not sure why people can't grasp that you can adapt and still be upset and want to change things as they go downhill.