Less activity is better. 4chan became too big since the late 2000s, the quality of the boards are always the ones that have less traffic and all of the glory years for the more popular boards were eons ago when the communities were far far smaller.
Take a look at /pol/. I think most people could argue that the peak years for that board were in the mid 2010's and hit a zenith prior to the presidential election of 2016. Back in November 2016, the board was 5 years old and hit its
100,000,000 GET. Now it takes less then half that time as 100,000,000 GETs were accomplished from
October 2022 -
March 2025 (less then 2 and a half years).
4chan being dead would've been a net positive. If it stayed dead, then it would've encouraged people to create new imageboard sites to crop up and eventually a dominant one would emerge out of the competition that doesn't have two decades of accumulated corruption. Nothing has been solved with Grapeape and right now he's in pure denial mode and refuses to admit any actual fault for why the site is the way it is. Because honestly why would he? He knows retards don't care for posting on imageboards, just if they can post on 4chan, which he holds the keys to. After all, where else can someone make a thread and get 100+ genuine replies from Rupesh and his Pajeet bot farm in India for their immediate dopamine fix? Certainly not sites like zzzchan!