there are plenty of pet games that have very small dedicated userbases out there and have been running for many years, though the unfortunate truth about those is that they are often passion projects and not for profit besides maybe from optional ads/patreon. And as it stands, Komodo iirc does not currently have the time to work on the site full-time which in turn results in less frequent updates and new stuff being added.

the adventure was a great release but I do agree that for the game to stay more relevant it needs a bit of a better... "loop"? More reasons to come back and keep playing. But a lot of the features that would be amazing additions (crafting, pet accessories, more arcade games, more stuff to do with PPT, more reasons to support patreon) would take a long time to develop (probably) and afaik Komodo works on the game code alone for the most part sooo yeah things are slow.

And other mods being busy too such as Wayvern bringing monthly forum events to a halt has not exactly helped bring more user engagement. So right now all we got are uhh... 3 site events throughout the year. We really could use a whole lot more of those :0 but mods being volunteers and all, if they haven't got the time then nothing much can be done...

but yeah my rambling aside, while I don't think Pixpet will outright die, I very much agree that there isn't much hope for the numbers going up if new things are few and far between. But like with such a small team and budget, it's inevitably going to take a while to make progress. I do hope things will pick back up soon though since I love the community here, and drawing lil pixels for the game :'0