Honestly, I'm very pessimistic.
It's been years since VIC3 release, one of the biggest ever for Paradox, and now we are back to sub-6k players. After 2 1/2 years the game still lacks flavour, global events (like Berlin conference), AI cannot compete against players and fail every single possible unification, there are hundreds of exploits and the game becomes trivial and soulless after 1900. Can it still be saved?