Greetings to all, as it has been a while.
Hello Everyone,
I have been very vacant from the GMOD Community as a whole for more than 3 years. I am looking to make a return to the community. Recently I have been measuring the statistics of the Average Player Count for Garry's Mod Servers and player base as a whole and they seem relatively low compared to what they were last year. Now this isn't out the ordinary since obviously people tend to move on and have other stuff happen in their life but I was just wondering everyone else thoughts and opinions about the overall landscape and population in GMOD. Would you say the game is "dying" or would you say it is remaining consistent? Looking for feedback since I am looking to revive my old community.
I do feel the same, looking at metrics tho (SteamDB):

... can't say that the game is "dying". Playercount is declining but far from being dead. It's within the 50 most played games on Steam (47th place)
One theory might be, that the amount of Gamemodes has increased, thus the players per gamemode decrease.
That’s very interesting. I was researching the different game modes and which one would be most beneficial for the community and for growth. I used to develop/run a community that started off as a militaryrp server and branched into policerp. That’s a whole other story. I see policerp isn’t doing fantastic.
i will tell u that the addons quality have also been declining for the past year