I have no idea about the current state of the game. I haven't logged in for almost half a decade at this point. But i have no hope at all that gameplay is any better than it was when I left. Between the massive push for RMT skill training making the time investment worthless and a (at the time) new owner changing a bunch of little things it just wasn't the game I enjoyed playing anymore.
I'm in the exact same boat. Even having consigned myself to the fact that the game will never be what it was, I still get pangs of longing sometimes and have to remind myself.
It's such a strange and unique game, there really hasn't been anything like it before or since.