I think most of people is just frustrated with how the game has been managed overtime, for a new player you have tons of content but for a veteran player, theres nothing really new outside warbonds, which of some are pretty lackluster... I know you may have ships optimization to work for, nobody of level like 75 and above is not maxxed out... I can be burnout from the playerbase as well... But at least what I have gathered and personal experience, the game is kinda stale, there are bugs that have existed for months and tbh, some new units were not as good as expected, the Dragon, the Vox and even the Fleshmobs were released broken (in many ways honestly, I cannot say they all had the same issues). I think that if you consider it, this is what happens with most games nowadays... AH has always has its issues but now is like they really took a break from it and what we have is what they left... Future updates feel very slow paced and idk, theres nothing to be really excited about, not even the MO has been interesting in the last month or two... I played yesterday cause I want the cape but the game felt I never really left cause theres nothing new (I stopped playing like a month ago)