There are hardly any ex-Baha'is to be found I think because the Baha'i community is so irrelevantly small it has essentially no actual presence in the world (so the "ex" community is likewise incredibly tiny).
I think perhaps the ex community will grow in the coming years and we may see things like "ex-Baha'i" support groups because the Faith has lurched hard into cult-like behavior with how the Institute Process is practiced and it's increased meddling in the lives of youth (e.g. ISGP). Pre the year 2000 the Faith was content to just sign people up, and as such it made very little demands of most of its adherents, but with the Institute Process and the UHJ showing its hand in endorsing it as a surefire way to get entry by troops has made the community incredibly toxic. No longer is it a vaguely New Age social club, it's an aggressively proselytizing organisation which press-gangs young people into door-knocking campaigns with incredible pressure put on people to turn around an abject failure of a teaching technique. (tl;dr, pre-Institute Process it was pretty hard for people to get disillusioned by the Faith unless they studied it deeply which I don't think was ever really encouraged outside of curated materials. Post-institute process there are some very explicit claims and instructions that are constantly being shown to be total BS, so disillusionment is a foregone conclusion in my mind).
Adding onto the above, I think it is becoming easier to have positive relationships with Baha'i friends/family from "outside" the Faith, because while most Baha'is have no awareness and certainly no interest in theological/historical objections, I think most if not all Baha'is have basically realised the UHJ is far from infallible and it's easier to adopt a live and let live mindset as a result.
https://old.reddit.com/r/exbahai/comments/1cs7t70/firstgen_iranian_diaspora_on_the_verge_of_leaving/l44r7lg/
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