People do actually play but collectors, sneaker snipers, hypebeasts, cryptobros and investor faggots fleeing from magic are a problem. They’ve driven a majority of the playerbase to playing live or pocket because of things like the shitshow with 151 and prismatic evolutions where you’re basically just stuck buying singles. They’ve also driven a lot of game stores to the point where they’d rather not host organized play because they wind up getting pressed into selling prize packs to collectors and TPCI’s terrible ordering requirements for stores. The collector and scalper midwits like to rag on the game and tell people that no one plays it, but that’s because they’ve ruined it for the players.