BUT THE SHILLS TOLD ME CIV VII WAS DOING AMAZING ON CONSOLE AND THE ABYSMAL STEAM PERFORMANCE WAS JUST AN OUTLIER???? WHY IS THIS HAPPENING????

If they remove the civ-switching, it's current playerbase of loyal fans who defended this game against it's evil "boomer haters" will feel angry and betrayed that they caved in to the "toxic" people, and there is no guarantee that the people who wrote this game off will come back.
But if they don't nix the civ-switching the game will continue it's slow march towards having barely any players with nobody to buy the newest civ/leader packs DLC.
How would (you) save this game and give 2K it's money back?

>player count reaches picrel
"um, it's purely external factors, there are secretly bajillions of console players"
>after a patch and a small sale the player count bumps to 10k on a weekend, it's STILL lower than V
'oMG THE GAME IS SAVED THANK YOU FIRAXIS"

>Not even after 5 months after release they are altering the game so that players can toggle off the pseudo-railroaded "victory conditions" and the "requirements" for "switching to another civ" (eg: before you needed 3 sources of horses to unlock Mongolia, now you can be Mongolia no matter what)
What went wrong?

>Every week this piece of shit loses hundreds of players, at least 1k per month, despite the damn GENRE is based on people playing for hundreds of hours
>All the shills can muster as a defense is that everyone just went to the consoles, and it's okidoki the collapsing player count because consoles, consoles, it had a simultaneous launch in consoles and epic and everyone is on the consoles, just offscreen.