I think the community as a whole is slowly dying. People just don't post on the forums often. There are a handful of people at most who maintain the core utilities (DFHack, Dwarf Therapist), but even they are getting less active with time. Most utilities don't get maintained anymore, neither do mods. The wiki barely gets updated. Seriously, I had to look up "Insurrections" on the wiki and found out that there wasn't any mention of it or how they work. It's a feature that dates from 0.40, in 2014. In five years, nobody bothered to add an entry to a major feature of the game. Same as historical figures, it seems everyone knows how they work but no one bothered to write it on the wiki.
I really don't understand. The game has gotten a lot of cool features such as taverns, visitors, the ability to send armies out and interact with the world, pillage artifacts, that sort of stuff. Eight years ago I remember everyone was drooling over that kind of stuff that Toady announced, now everyone's just "meh". New articles on the wiki are lackluster, no one bothers anymore.
Do people just not care about the game that much? Or is it that Toady spends a lot more time fiddling with background worldgen stuff than actual fortress mode gameplay, so people just feel the game plays the same no matter what? Is it FPS death? I'm really worried at this point.