I generally agree with the sentiments being stated here:
- The community is getting older, therefore, creation is in decline/creativity in work is stagnant.
Try to get younger friends involved if you can.
- The effort vs reward just... doesn't make it worth it now.
This is in the eye of the beholder, but as far as making a new voicebank, unless you're doing something super-novel and specific, it's unlikely that someone will check on it unless you've managed to blow away the competition.
And in art and music, there are always oceans of the stuff. You either want to create something and share it or you don't.
If you're keen on making something, go ahead and make it, not because you think it'll go around the world if you share it, but because the practice you get while making it will be useful in the future. There are other projects like UTAU in the works, when one of them proves itself, you'll already know what you're doing, making the transition easier.
- The UTAU software is a ticking time bomb.
Get into retro computing if you haven't already, because for all intents, that's what this is and it's our future.
Things aren't truly dead until whatever future iteration of Windows 10 comes around... and you can't install it through conventional means. Until then, the "death" will be coming from changes within the community.
I think it's more likely that civilization will ruin itself and break the internet first