Sheesh guys...don't let the tempers get too short...take a pill.
Sure the game is not the same as it was, nothing ever stays the same though. Back when the MA had ~75 pilots on a busy night during prime time "gameplay" was certainly different. But when there are 5,000 active accounts LOGGING IN every tour (one must assume the active accounts number around 7,000) it is hard to say things are not better now than they were, at least from a business perspective.
And make no mistake, this is a business. While I may have preferred the small tight-knit community of A2A afficionados (where we knew each other) I have a hard time making the case that the game is dying with the subcriber-base being so large.