NO GAEM NOT DED GOOBY PLS STAHP.
Actually, the community is quite stable. Always around 2700 players online. Well enough for a game this old imo.
edit: to solidify my point:CoH 1/2 are both games directed at comparably hardcore players. The learning curve is very steep. That's why the online community is small anyways. Games that are easier to learn/hard to master are simply more appealing to large audiences than hard to learn/hard to master.
Also the marketing part of these games kind of fail :X