You guys need to understand that there have been alot of changes since RS4. In both terms, script and leadership and all the issues stated for the past years and until now have been there since the very beginning, we got left with something that just causes a neverending fight within the SA:MP division and its players. I agree with Stivi; scripts were never the issue, back in the days people felt comfortable with the things they had because that was all they could get, despite the leadership issues players were still there.
Many things happened, messy things to be specific, RS5 got released and alot of people were unpleased not because the script was hard to understand nor the bugs because both gamemodes had bugs, but because it was far from being what they expected, because it was far from being what they got told to it was going to be. Alot was promised yet too little was made and that's what made players to lose the motivation, because the improvements were always on hold, not because it was decided that way, but because that's how RS5 begun. Released due to a loss on the old server data, unfinished, unstable, causing complaints and with the complaints came the resignment of several development members and leaders, leaving the next HQ with a pile of waste and so on until this point; the damage was done.
As many others tried to keep going replacements were just making things harder to fix, because there was no longer a solid ground for a team. I'm not saying things that we already know as an excuse, our leadership has flaws, so did the previous ones, alot of scripters/mappers resigned for the same reasons, the complaints made for what was left for them to solve made them lose the motivation aswell and I don't blame them, as I don't blame Chase for not working as fast as we need, nor having to hire Teddy so that we can get actual updates in a decent period of time and definitely I don't blame the players for leaving after being let down.
Regarding RS4 and a Legacy server, I actually disagreed with saying that it's a waste of time, the real waste of time has passed already, when the community got promised changes and new scripts yet nothing happened. But don't get me wrong, I do not think that RS4 is the solution, I don't think that releasing an old gamemode it's going to give us a SA:MP server with 100 players, but we don't lose anything in trying all the alternatives we have at hand, we are here to listen the players afterall. As I already told Andeey in private, whether if it works or not, it would finally give an answer to those that always keep bringing back the "we should return to RS4" argument. If it works well gg, if it wont at least they wont ask for it anymore.