What you or I think is in essence irrelevant. What matters is what the other players players think.
This may be a tiny (and I mean really tiny) opinion base, but these are players who responded to the poll.
Wether their opinions agree with you or not is also immaterial. All Funcom has to do is state categorically that the game is not dead.
Funcom’s silence speaks volumes.
Btw, I intend to keep this post active until at least end of Spring.