Oh man.
On one hand, I agree about some stuff being spoken about here. On the other, I disagree about some of the topics.
As for numbers:
Garry's mod isn't really dying so to speak but we are not seeing the numbers like we did in 2013-2018 when the game was in it's prime. You had gamemodes like DarkRP, Pirateship Wars (the remake), GMTower, Zombie Survival/ etc. There was also a HUGE number of people coding stuff for Garry's mod during this time and also creating new maps. There is indeed quite a majority waiting for S#box now but the number has stayed constant to a degree.
As for player retainment:
There have been plenty of times where a certain part of the server goes into the shitter and people start pitchforking for it's removal. Most of the time it's due to a major change not really well liked. For example: Bounty Hunters due to some RP revamp so they don't have a coinvent way of saying they have cloaks or BARCs stored and nobody could actually vouch for it. 21st for the changes Brooklyn/Dennis/etc made to the battalion after the wipe. These made people want to not be part of the server aka the player retainment issue.
327th and 91st is not one of these cases.
Yes, 327th often had the short straw pulled compared to other battalions. One thing about 327th was problematic leadership often allowing people to do stupid shit without punishment. I.E: Poe constantly getting arrest and a certain major playing Alabama *CENSORED* in DB to protest an arrest...while drunk. The other thing is that K-company didn't bring anything new to their table and often brought people looking at 212th aka what Comics mentioned.
I still find it harsh that 327th was never really given a chance. I wanted to at least give it until Willy's term was up before anything before removal.
91st is a different beast. Some saw it as a carbon copy. Others saw it kind of elitist. The main issue was their HC fishing people to other servers that ended with their sudden removal.
Now to the topic at hand:
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Something has got to give but removal should be the last step. Every-fucking-time we get one of these threads, We get chatter of "HEY *INSERT THIS REMOVED HERE* IS GONE NOW SO NOW WE CAN REPLACE IT WITH *INSERTED FORMERLY REMOVED HERE* and it'll be great!"
How about we deal with what we have and stop the revolving door.
(this is weirdly typed due to me being tired from work. sorry)