Where have all the players gone?

Today, Attract1ve was playing at two NL Hold 'em 10¢ buy in tournaments and doing well in both of them.  NL is very different than fixed limit.

Plotting the players in poker in a pyramid, there are a lot of players at the bottom and very few players at the apex.  When going up in limits, the number of games decrease rapidly and the difficulty in playing those games increase the same.  The player "upressure" no longer plays and was an absolute penny poker winner, after watching her play at the next level she did not seem to be doing well.  But my judgement of her was from very little observation.  Perhaps she is playing in a casino in Germany.  Today Princess was playing and she (he) is one of the older micro limit players.  At Poker Stars, the biggest poker room on the internet, screen names and avatars cannot be change.  So... where have all the players gone... most of them have quit it seems.