So....Its dead then?

2 or 3 years ago, you could play hundreds of custom games. Cowboys and clowns, Jailbreak, how about an entire map from Halo complete with functional weapons? Yep. Even some dude creating R6 Siege complete with gadgets and destructible environments

Then, pretty much overnight, the devs made one change and killed all the mods. Did they expect everyone would just remake them from scratch for the new engine or whatever it was?

The modded game is dead. There's maybe 20 servers and half of them are just TTT, the other 45% are TDM. There's maybe 2 custom servers at any given time now. They absolutely murdered their game.