many quit, however many stayed this time around which tells SE that 1.0 is better than 2.0

There is a lot of improvement to be made.

Most noteably is the return of filters in chat, FC window, search, and auction house. No one knows why this was removed other than to annoy players and give SE something to easily improve on. Also the linking of items in chat needs to be back.

That alone would bring back a lot of people. The game is amazing but simple things like that that are in every other game for 10 years missing is a problem.