This is also how it feels like to me. And I've seen the whole "but there was a map full of people in this one map I was on so it's definitely not dead" argument. As for that, that's the mega server system at work. If LFG is dead outside of the two hours after reset for fractals, only raid sellers can be seen on raid LFG, and LFG only shows one squad looking for people for map meta events (compared to multiple squads from prior years) then the game's population is definitely decreasing. I'm guessing that people that are making the argument that the game's population isn't decreasing are probably relatively new players because compared to how it was before, the game does appear to be dying. The new players might just not have any point of reference to how it was before population-wise.