Yes, I said that a long time ago. The biggest changes to improve GS were made by it's users!
Newton (best stable physics in A7 for me)
Shade-C (best stable shaders with hight FPS for me)
LightFrog (best lights and shadows I've ever seen)
Anet (one of the best and stablest plugins for Multiplayer games)
GSNet (an other great and stable plugins for Multiplayer games)
IntenceX (best AI I've ever seen of GS)
SSAO (great looking shader, which will give to your games more ambience)
LBGUI (great and easy to use GUI tool)
HED - Hitbox Solution with Editor (the easiest way to make your games more realistic)
And so on.. If we dig deeper, we'll see that rabbit hole is deeper than we think
And I'm sure we'll find a lot of other great tools!
(Sorry if I forgot some ones an other great tool )
But even if GS is "dying" (I really don't what that to be true) we need to be optimistic!
If GS gonna be closed, I hope Conitec will realize free PRO version of A8 and all previous versions