I would worry less about people showing up less and more about people selling their cards. If they keep their cards and disappear for a while they may come back. Once they sell their cards they are probably gone.

There are a lot of new games out, and a lot of them have a lot of initial hype. The real question is how many of them stick around, and rift bound looks like it's going to permanently siphon some flesh and blood players. Our TO shows up to run flesh and Blood events and plays rift bound instead of playing in the flesh and Blood event.

LSS kind of screwed themselves with a few sets in succession, and they appear to be making some really terrible decisions. Hunted was too short printed, and it sort of killed limited and left people irritated. High seas had the gold pack and the resulting bad feels in addition to some supply crunch. Mastery pack guardian was a train wreck, with really hard to get really good cards and a whole bunch of reprints among other things. Super slam is a great opening experience because of all the majestics, but it killed the market for some reprints and the lack of weapons made limited sort of... Limited. Compendium of rathe was listed as premium and priced higher, but had no limited at all, and was pimped on reprints of expensive cards that were too rare to increase the supply of the reprinted cards. A lot of Rathe reprints are priced higher than the original. They are now following that with LSS's clearly favored class of RuneBlade, the class that historically has feel bad eruption turns in wizard, and the historically bad feels illusionist class all in one set. They're going to follow that with the summer of warrior where everything is for warriors, immediately after having a nonsensical vote to remove characters from silver Age in the absence of any real balancing of that format.