No not really, i watch player stat's online. For a long time the average would dwindle by a few players every week, after update some never came back, others came back from long absence and the numbers have been boosted very slightly. More or less the same now. Players come, players go. Some i wish had stayed but they have things to do in their life that doesn't involve being a CGI animal. *shrug*
For what it's worth i meet people sometimes at the stone bridge in ficho. Suspect a parkour type map will be in a future update. Hoping we don't need to wait 4 years for it.
lol i am the least adaptable person ever and even i cope with the update just fine. If people want south pole then there are snowy maps, even i downloaded them. Sometimes you just have to "Let it go", pun intended.
i have seen were people combine or have different markings each side on presets, i guess that's what they expected people do to if they wanted more markings.