While it's not directly addressing anything you said (and I did read it all, you had a lot of valid points), I want to point one thing out:

3. That the entirety or majority of the player base is actually satisfied with the state of the game and its lack of content and couldn't care less otherwise despite the many others I've seen actively state their disdain for the current state of the game and how it's fallen from how it felt before.
For me, personally, the amount of content, while feeling a bit lacking, is enough to keep me entertained. I came here from WoW, which can go 6+ months without any kind of content update or anything, so what we have here can easily satisfy me, and while not everyone here came from there, I'm sure there's a pretty decent number of us who did, and see the green grass on this side of the fence. Something does need to change, I'm not going to pretend that it doesn't, but maybe, just maybe, it's not as bad as it can feel?