If the only players they wanted were the ones that were playing 1.0, they wouldn't have remade the game.

While it is obviously true that a lot of people have left, changing the game to be more similar to 1.0 would only make them lose more subscribers and roughly go back to 1.0 numbers. At that point they'd just shut down the servers.

Regardless of what you're saying, at the moment at least, there are certainly still a lot more people playing the game than the number that was playing 1.0 at the end of its life.