Ethereum Has Lost Over 6,500 Nodes in the Last Two Weeks

According to the block explorer Etherscan.io, Ethereum’s node count has plummeted in the last two weeks from well over 9,000 to under 3,000. While chain explorers can give rough estimates, this drop does correlate with the glitch in node software that caused the chain to split just two weeks ago. But why hasn’t the chain recovered these nodes yet?