But where are all the players?

I came back from a 10 month hiatus (because Miri is cute af) and I'm loving the quality of life improvements. Story progression mode, revamped transformation system, free leveling gear, reduced AP cost for restoration, Ctrl to skip quest text, quick battle, and the huge amounts of exp/AP for each battle is amazing. I can't believe that I'm actually having fun leveling through season 1. They even merged the NA servers, which was a change that we wanted for years.

Was it just too little too late? Honestly, all of these changes should have been added to the game back when the game was still alive (season 3 launch). I haven't gotten to end game yet so maybe that's still a mess but it just sucks seeing all of these HUGE improvements and the game is more desolate than ever. FeelsBadMan