adding onto the game being 10 - i feel like i should jump in and say the staff didn't have the source code for a majority of those years. updates regarding anything that wasn't purely cosmetic were simply impossible and so players struck out and made a wide variety of original content. custom maps, markings, items, interfaces, etc just to keep things fresh for themselves.
a lot of the players aren't seen because they could be in private maps roleplaying, you could've been at the wrong place at the wrong time, anything, really. i promise people log in.