Why did Urbex change so much?

Hi there, F25

Have been doing Urbex for over 10yrs now, abandoned places and drains.

When I started it was very underground, and very simple with two rules:

1. Take only photos, and leave only footprints
2. Never ask/give out locations.

These rules were fine and always were respected by old school urbexers.

Unfortunately the community has changed. I find myself refusing to even post photography from places I find out of fear people will go looking for them to destroy. I am very skilled at finding untouched locations, and I love keeping history intact - there have been a few times I found a location which had been sitting for years, untouched, and then after I posted some photos because I genuinely love to document history people were begging for it/saying I was gatekeeping/now that they knew it existed they deliberately went and looked for it and it become destroyed in weeks - despite sitting for 20+ yrs untouched. That caused a lot of upset to me, and now I just explore for myself.

But why, what happened to the community? Why did it change?? Why do people care more about the "edgy" side of tresspassing and much less about preserving history?? Why are people so reliant on having locations handed to them?

Ruins the entire thing - but genuinely curious.

This is my passion, has been for ages. Always will be. I have found the only way I can genuinely enjoy it is if I do not share images/locations at all. Another old school friend suggested I wait till places have been demolished to share, I may consider this. That is what they do.