To be honest with you, speaking impartially, I would say in combination with reduced size of this community, the ego's of certain members of the community makes a return to previous times near impossible. New players arent coming and many who are left have behaved in atrocious ways and not been removed from the community (due to poor pulls likely). This slowly seeps into leadership over the years.
I still think overall the real underlying issue that started all of this was the involvement of the main scene. The pure and main scene stayed separate for a long time, and now I'm very doubtful they will ever dissociate.
I dont really have a solution, but I also dont really care. The game is coming towards a close anyway (atleast from a clanning perspective). I would urge anyone who is putting considerable time into "fixing" the community to not waste their time (atleast outside of CWA.)
If this game had a moderator team who interacted adequately with the community, the pure scene would be in a perfect spot, and I'd probably still have the same enthusiasm for the game.
For whatever time is left, I will occasionally log on to be with my boys and kill the ops!