I enjoyed New World, but I'm one of the people who have stopped playing thus adding to the decrease in players.
Gathering, Crafting, and Trading is my preferred gameplay, and I just can't do that with the game's terrible economy, item duplication, gold exploits, and them turning the trading posts off and on and off again whenever they encounter yet another gold related bug.
Might try it again in a few months, but by then Lost Ark will be out... so, we'll see. 😅
Really, the bugs and economy part being hurt by the exploids was fatal to the game. Only time can tell us if the economy will adjust naturally, but on the part of developers I believe it is impossible. Just with a reset, but that won't happen.