Luclin was the marked decline of the game. From Verant's vision, with dungeons and dragons, to Sony's haphazard experimentation.... Hey Aliens would be cool, and mooncats! From this point forward, we shall name every new zone, NPC, and item in honor of a faceroll!
And to address this:
There have already been folks who were bored with classic. Even if it stopped here, as a hypothetical example to illustrate my point, every day you still see new players joining, ecstatic that the server existed. And you see old folks coming back as well. It's not difficult for someone who becomes bored with the server/game to find something else to do, and it makes more sense for the responsibility for a player's own boredom to rest squarely on their own shoulders, than to redefine a project of this scope into something completely different, and rob others of the experience.
More simply put, it's project 1999, not project entertain you personally.