There's a reasonable upper limit to what you can get even with imm support these days. The playerbase was shrinking before edge points went away and even before edges existed for that matter, a huge part of what you're seeing is likely just confirmation bias. Unless anyone has hard stats as to the playerbase numbers before and after the change, you will be hard pressed to convince me otherwise.

I don't have all the answers Java, nor do I pretend to, I'm thankful it's not my job, I'm just here to play the game. I'm not really shutting down communication, I'm shutting down hyperbole and blanket statements that people want to throw out there as fact.