lets go through all of the mods that have came out. NaS was fun for a bit, until the developers didn't give a shit anymore. AZW is dead, Blood and Iron dead, Bello Civili = dead.
Iron Europe is the only mod being developed by a decent team, but let's be realistic, we'll probably play it for a week and then forget about it, like the others.
N&S Gettysburg was announced to be released as a continuation of the old N&S.
AZW is undergoing redevelopment by the team.
Blood & Iron is being actively developed by Willhelm for a new release soon.
Bello Civil was updated to 2.0 with Egypt faction.
If you consider the only decent team only for one mod despite others like BC and N&S having FSE developers and modders like Docm30 working on these projects you are mistaken.
Now the last sentence has some truth to the statement, some people do play for a week and leave the module affairs. The community holds everything together for annual events.
Iron Europe is highly anticipated as a NW mod should be that is actively developed and succeeding in their goal before public release.
A mod is never dead until the entire community looses interest in the theme and the developers quit development alltogether.