Yup we are due one of these threads, it's been a couple of months now.
NW is dying yes and will continue to die as all games do.
However we need not worry about that time just yet.
People who say NW is already dead are usually veterans of the community, who have plunged so many hours into the game, that they no longer feel the enjoyment they once experienced during the early days of this DLC's lifetime.
Yes the community is not what it used to be. Many respected and less wanted individuals have moved on, events are less frequent and some, not all, line battles struggle to fill their servers during lbs. Recruiting is not the easy process of hopping onto a public server and stoking the egos of potential recruits that it used to be. Regiments are disbanding weekly and the relationship between the moderators/developers and a large section of the community is not what it could be.
However, the NWL is still going strong, minus the occasion drop out, the group fighting server can easily see 60+ people on it at one time almost every day, and the return of one of the largest and most controversial regiments recently seems to have if anything rejuvenated the appeal of playing in large scale lb's.
So for the time being, I for one won't be worrying about the end of NW and neither should any of you.
And when someone posts another thread exactly like this one in a month or so, I'll say the exact same thing. and on the next one, and the one after that.
Now can someone go fetch me a biscuit and a cup of coffe. Me saying anything that doesn't resemble something on Alp's steam profile seems to be a rare occasion on these forums.