Look at the peakmonsters dashboard graphs and you will see that growth has been slowing down, and if you are on discord you'll definitely notice how complaints and people dissatisfied with the current state of the game has been a trend lately.
I don't agree 100% with what @beastion says, but to use those numbers to imply that it is all ok, it is to put them out of context bro. We can clearly see, both in discord and in the numbers that something didn't went as well as it should.