How do you feel about cheaters ?

I actually don't think it is a dead game. There are still many people playing the game and if you look into the Steam statistics you will see that there every day more than 1 mio players playing CS. https://store.steampowered.com/stats/
And cheaters have always been a problem, if you are serious play Face it, the anti-cheat client is pretty good and there are almost now cheaters.