Game is far away from dead, second most sold game through all of history with 144M sales, only Tetris is above it with 170M so it might break that record fairly "soon".
A game like this, almost like GTA with such a large player base, doesn't die off that easily. Yes it slowly lose interests but won't completely die off. 1.13 is coming soon and a "lot" with big quotation marks around the lot.. of people are hype for it, though it would quite ruin the game for low end PC players, still a pretty large update, almost like 1.9.
Community just consists of 7 year olds, no maturity, i liked old mincraft where everyone was over the age of 16 relatively speaking of coarse, not everyone was that old.