The problem you are conveniently ignoring with the census is the proportion of new players entering the game has NEVER been lower than it is now and DT holds the awful distinction of being the ONLY expansion where the x.0 new player numbers are actually lower than the previous expansion (x-1).5 patch

New player interest in the game is collapsing and attrition of the top heavy playerbase is accelerating, looking at the change from 7.2-7.3 we gained a negligible amount of new players and simply lost existing players even with a free login campaign

A game can’t survive off its top end legacy playerbase and since we made the genius decision to spit on the largest well of new players we will ever get I don’t know where they think they will get more new players in the future