Trademarks were just that, to be treasured. Companies merge, names change and we don't know who we are dealing with. It used to be that sports teams retained their top players. If you won the World Series you did everything you could to keep the players that got you there. Politics has also become somewhat like that.
Many positions have term limits.
Voters have been known to throw out everyone, whether they are doing a good job or not. And then there was Louie. As I talked to people in the days after the death at age 85 of Maryland Comptroller Louis Goldstein, many people expressed the same sentiment. They thought he would last forever. The Cal Ripken of Maryland State Government kept coming to the plate.