Hey, I came across your post and I felt like I should chime in.
There were some grammar mistakes in your post but I understood your point and the reason why you wrote it. Hey, you are pretty good at writing and expressing your thoughts!
Back to the topic, I also am an old user. I remember the day when my friend told me to play online game with him and that was LoD. If I remember correctly, this was back in 1998 (maybe we met before in this game back then? lol). Ever since then, I have been enjoying this game and this is one of my favorite game ever. There were times that I just didn't feel like to play so I stopped playing this game a few times, but I always came back to play again just like I did a few months ago haha. There was no "gone for good."
Honestly, there are many problems in this game as you know already but I still love this game and I believe there are people like me too.
Games exist to have fun. So... have fun! that's all I can say. :)
-Jin