we had 7-9 players online stable today, you just didn't look at the correct time.
player count does not equal to server's quality, my standards were lower when our server was new, now after over 3 years of working on it, I do not accept low quality staff members anymore, as I have understood that it's waste of time.
Also low quality builds wouldn't fit in nicely together with my current good looking builds xD have to keep things at least ok for minigame maps and awesome for main lobby.
And my decision on this person isn't only his builds related - he had came to the server and only wanted to build maps in singleplayer, he even "built" 2 of them while I asked for only one(the second one was unrelated to what I was asking for as it was survival games map not Elemental Archers map), I think he's suspicious for map downloading instead of building his own.
