You clearly live in alternate bubbles if you didn't notice the player activity is in the grave across all areas. Then again fanboys will be fanboys everywhere.
I play on Desolation EU which is/was one of the most populated realms. You can look at everything:
- WvW deserted most of the time and only a tiny fraction of the old wvw community still barely logging on reset day.
- Almost 8-90% less fractals/pve groups around compared to same time last year for example.
- All maps are dead, you barely encounter another player once in a full moon, even at world boss events you barely get more than 10 people at some "peak" hours
- Hot maps are totally empty besides a handful of people at peak hour
They have jack shit working on the new expansion, their staff got cut too much. Most of their devs are making LS3 episodes right now with a small number probably working on the next expansion due to release between 2020 and 2030.