Call me the eternal pessimist, but by all visible accounts, 2k1 is travelling very quickly down the road that NewWorld took. We'll never get the old feeling of 2k1 back, because we have little left of the old players. Dante, Zorro, Corpse (just 'cause he had so many hours), Trueheat, Virgil, Marle, etc... they're all gone (with the exception of THT popping in here and there on the forums).
Lance, the people crave some sort of visible improvements. Give them a couple kingdom levels to check out, even if they're devoid of scripts. Bring some functionality back to the server, like Bomy pets, or the old minigames. Saying things have been done is all fine and dandy, and for all we know you're being 100% truthful about what you say, but without some sort of visible or operable way of confirming your claims, the players won't be happy.
...'Sides, all the other servers suck anyways.
