Don’t worry the splatoon community is still alive like Vian and ASquidmin and so many, also new players. Hopefully splatoon 3 will be a blast too... if it ever comes.
What the creator is trying to say here is that due to there being "better options" at this time and also due to the lack of updates splatoon has been getting there isnt much of a reason to return to this series and that makes the creator sad