I only briefly played any PC graal after UN had been deemed dead already, but for the while I played it I enjoyed myself.
I can speak to how I feel classic has progressed, which isn't much. I don't think the game has become any worse in itself since 2010-2011, but as you get older you have less fun playing the actual game and it becomes more about just talking to people you know. There's one interesting event that happens every 3 months in the game's current state but until (if) NGS is released, that's all that really exists to do that bears any semblance of competition.