yup, you're better with words than I am, dani... xD
You guys misunderstood. He never blamed the expansion for the lack of players, but exactly the maintenance you mentioned. All he said was the effort people are putting in making lists with the bugs and whatnot is wasted. Clearly molten no longer cares about the expansion and perhaps rightfully so given the small playerbase. It has been disregarded for so long now we might as well let it fossilize.
What you quoted is not what he thinks, but the mindset of the staff. Though I can see why it looks confusing.
He has been playing Cata for years with me, it would be silly to bash an expansion we actually loved playing on this very server since old wotlk Frostwolf first got updated to Cata in like 2012
Now if only Neltharian had 1000 more players at least...Anyway good job on the improvements Warmane staff. I look forward to seeing all the end-game content working :D. Also could you script older content too, please? It would be great to play them through. Now if only more players used the RDF tool while leveling...