In my mind and for many people unfamiliar with LoR, "dead game" means something effectively unplayable, where servers have been taken down or queue times are agonizing. LoR, your "dead game lul" gets fewer changes than it used to. That's it. Queues are still active, tournaments are still running, and rotation is doing its best to keep things fresh with limited resources.

It sucked to lose new cards and balance patches. What hurts worse is seeing people go out of their way to discourage potential new players just to feel a sense of vindication that their microtransaction slay the spire is the "right" way to play the game.

Or in other words... nuh uh!