Yeah, the “EvE is dying” thing became something of meme over the years…but since the incarna misimplimentation tragic fiasco / greed is good thing / summer of rage reaction beginning of the long decline…it actually has - sadly - become progressively truer.
The EvE of the past is, of course, gone. Everything changes, and “you can’t go home again” is a true thing, certainly - but despite what good ol’ Hilmar says publicly, EvE won’t last forever. That it has lasted even this long is a testament to how great of an idea it was and especially how much it’s players put into it over the years. (why do you think no other project ccp has done has really caught on despite some of them actually being fairly good ideas? They just didn’t get that special power flow EvE got going.) Now, however, EvE is in decline…it actually is really dying now, I observe somewhat sadly but with grateful nostalgia.