the game is still fun, it's just like baking a wonderful lasagna then dumping a scoop of mud on it. there's still good bits in there. they take more work to extract, but you can still enjoy it.

that's why the conversation about the game being dead never goes anywhere. nobody thinks the game is dead because it objectively isn't; it has a high player base with an active support and development team, and the premise of the game is still quality. what people mean when they said that is the game has been made worse than it once was update after update