This is legit the best explanation of how Minecraft has slightly declined in the interest of many.
Razzberry_PieMinecraft has been dying. I personally haven't played for years and just started again for the purpose of being staff on a friends server. I know the game, but will all of the updates i feel like a noob. The reason? The player base. When it was first released the player based ranged widely, but one can safely assume many were pre-college or pre career. After a couple years, the players started to have other responsibilities and couldn't play the game much anymore. They then realized how the player based has changed, Team Crafted began to take over, and now the game is more for people under the age of 15. Thats what happened to me and many of my friends at least.