If you miss them that much, there are places to find many of them. Since some of them are your 'good friends' and you are not precluded from communicating with them without FR, why subject everyone else to the venom that they spew when riled?
Additionally, many of them have reappeared and been banned for the second, third and subsequent times. Let them plead their own cases if they want to come back that badly.
And I’m trying to be reasonable also. Some may have been downright “ugly”, as you say, but many weren’t. I’m not trying to revist the past, merely wondering if there were any ways that we could , dare I say it..”move on” (g)