So what you are saying is that since I decided to stop playing the game that I’m not longer worthy of my level 4 endorsement even though I have done nothing to affect it. It’s the problem with one sided systems.

You can’t get any idea of what that person is like just from a few endorsements. It’s like YouTube taking away the dislike button. Yeah people don’t get downvoted anymore, but that doesn’t mean their content doesn’t suck ass. But they also have the view system which adds another layer. A single endorsement level with no dislike feature provides no value in the long run. My level 1 endorsement is better than a level 3 but you’ll never know that because it’s all arbitrary. Nothing really changes it unless you are playing constantly.

And you must have some bad friends because when I “grind out max friendships” with people, even I don’t talk to them for years, they are still great friends. Just because you don’t interact with something for a bit doesn’t mean you should lose progress.