I think this is missing the point of IzPrebuilt's comment. If he didn't still care a bit, he wouldn't bother saying anything on the forum. My supposition is he's hoping attitudes exemplified by they way you, Roland, and by implication TFP, replied would change. He's not the only content creator with many, many runs on the board (cricket term you you US guys) to do this.
You make the comment further along that the baseline usage settles down to about 30K (users?). It is rather obvious that content creators like IzPrebuilt have contributed to that number being so high. Whichever way you slice it, Roland, you represent the ethos of TFP. I'm personally not impressed that this is the way that content creators are responded to (that is: "oh, it's all your fault you are feeling this way") by TFP staff.
It's pretty obvious to me that a lot of the content creators were expecting A21 to be out by now to be able to freshen their content. Several of them actively in diversification mode, while others are just trying fresh takes on stuff that has already been done (my immediate reaction is I feel so, so sorry for them). While it won't happen overnight, some of 7 Days' present success is due to those content creators. Treating them as "why are you still here then" won't affect you overnight, but my goodness it's the wrong way to treat people in the here and now.