yer the user base has essentially halved in about 2 years - BUT has been stable at about 20k-22k users for the past 6 months or therebouts, so its reached a settling point.
there is a massive inflation issue. probably due a result of people 'tanking' consistently and a supply issue. This is - i feel, reaching a critical mass, where in some other countries, the user base has declined much bigger than here in Australia.
Training is a little different. better i feel.
Draft is still annoying.
Tactically - i think that definitely there has been a shit away from LI and M2M as standard defenses. There are an ever increasing number of users playing the game 'just to see if i can win using Princeton' i guess is the way i would put it.
personally ive been experimenting with 2-3 and 3-2 zones and the effect of shot blocking - that and also Princeton/II/OO offenses.
'Winning' for me, is less of a motivation at the moment. 'Discovery' and trial is very much keeping me in the game, albeit less actively than previous years.