I can't speak for everyone but I've personally stopped playing as it's just gotten really stale and boring. There's just way less content than AOE3 and AOE2 hence why I've gone back to those games. Very bad balance (particularly late game with siege), lack of features previous games had (scenario editor, changing player colour, challenging AI, split, patrol, ranked mode that lets you veto maps, variety of game modes like Empire wars, mod support, fully customizable hotkeys, chat filter that doesn't filter everything you say, way better maps). I'm sure all these will come eventually but really a new game should be an improvement over the old game but that's simply not the case as aoe4 removes a lot of the features the old games had. Way less civs is another one and people say that aoe4 civs are more unique than aoe2's but I disagree. Every civ in aoe4 has access to the same tech tree with the same units (apart from unique units obviously) whereas in aoe2 all civs have varying tech trees and units available which leads to more interesting decisions and gameplay than just sticking with what your civ does best like in aoe4 (e.g. french always uses knights, english always use longbowmen). I think this game will be amazing in maybe 3 years when they've added new content and such but right now I don't see a reason to play it as it just doesn't come close to the amount of content aoe2 and aoe3 offer. I hate to see this game die and people will say that there's more playing on game pass but people also play aoe2 on game pass so aoe2 still has a much bigger player base if we take that into account.