Yes dwbtd that is the sad question, if more people saw that it's not a super human feat to be "one of them" then even more people would be.
Yes, MIR I am someone who will not drink again..ever..and never change their minds, ever since I found AVRT and made my Big Plan. I do not think it is anything special to stop doing something that I chose to do, that hurt everyone around me and myself.
The majority of people you see in ANY public forum (whether it be online or in real life) are people who are struggling to do what they know is right. The many many people who just got on with it, stuck to their guns and have never drank again, are almost invisible in the public forums, therefore struggle, failure and it seeming an almost impossible task sets a lot of peoples mindset to this being inevitable.