Shame it's usually people like you and me. I don't know, maybe sometimes it's better to let something die so it could return from the ashes? I'm on the fence here, as on one hand I got great experience mainly thanks to having a small group, but part of me would want to see more people involved.

Things that die tend to stay dead. Colleges are littered with dead clubs, mentioned only briefly in yearbooks of ages long past. No matter what the thing is, astronomy, physics, knitting, cooking, programing, music, in my experience it is far easier to fan an ember that is glowing, no matter how dimly, than to start from nothing. To give a great example of this, the boy scout program that existed when I was a wee lad was allowed to die when the two couples running the whole thing had a falling out over policy. The town I grew up in did not have a scouting program for over a decade due to the void left in the wake of the collapse.

As I was told a million years ago, "frustration builds character." Maybe that is true, yet the fight is not any less shitty though, is it? Then again "I kept the club alive" looks good on a resume; it shows you have a passion.