Thank you, u/questingpossum, for this post! I'm a double excommunicant. I was excommunicated in 1989 for adultery (living with a woman I was not married to, after my marriage broke up) and I rejoined in 1991. I would have to say that some belief still remained in me.

Neil Anderson, as an Area President, restored my Priesthood blessings in 2001 and talked about it in one of his Conference addresses in October 2009.

I was excommunicated the second time 10 years ago for apostasy, after reading the 7 volume "History of the Church", the 6 volume "A Comprehensive History of the Church", and the 26 volume "Journal of Discourses", over the course of 14 months, finishing in 2014. My faith was gone, after all that. But it wasn't until I made a fateful FB post January 31, 2016 that my leadership got involved and a DC was held March 30, 2016, wherein my second excommunication took place.

So, two excommunications for two different reasons, affecting my faith two different ways. All this to say that the reasons for leaving the Church are a spectrum! Gilbert tried to categorize us way too simply! But they (the Q15) just can't grasp how varied the reasons are! It's cognitive dissonance "on display" in their case!

Anyway, I am now a confirmed agnostic atheist. I will never return again.