OK, let's start by saying that SSRP is not full of AFK miners and there are lots of active players and anyone who tells you opposite is full of bull shit. The server is currently trying fine and there is no need for a new server. You can still have fun on the server now with how it works. The updates are full of new and exciting content that is custom to the server. Implementing a 'vanilla server' would not be popular, who really wants to play on a server with minimal to no unique content? Not many people. Finally there shouldn't be a community vote on what is in the updates because this leaves an element of surprise, along with the fact that the community does not know what they want.