the poll's ever so slightly misleading.
the current state of the game is somewhat grim. however, i do like the direction that the game is going in, at least according to the list devcat posted about what they're aiming to change (see the future content section)
My guess would be that the regions weren't making enough money so they had to do the merge and they decided to cut a lot of their staff. Meanwhile, in reality, a decent amount of CS can actually generate more money than it costs.