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I started on first day - and I certainly mean it when I tell that no one should ever consider to start it right now.

Even if we forget about the worst art on nutaku bar a few western games, poor imbalanced gameplay with barely any viable variety(viable as in not having certain UR - just reroll until you get it at the very least, because all other UR's just pale in comparison.. aside of maybe 1 more which is decent)... timed events from people who luck out in the run for daimyo placing his/her own time with your only real choice being adapting to it until next daimyo makes it even worse.... the list of downsides goes on and on.
Even though all URs are at least decent, you need duplicates of them to be worth something... so again - you didn't luck out with duplicates of that specific UR in a while - might as well quit the game as well.
Literally in a game with potential for a strategic play they ruined it by giving the same tier girls complete 180 abilities I don't even know how was it possible to make it THAT disbalanced... you don't even need to test or consider anything when something is literally 1.5-2+ times more efficient, you don't exactly have a choice between temple/church because one is clearly superior with main meta... unless you can get a very good non meta setup - church is barely viable unless you want to 'pray' for RNG to guide you there... Heck even something as basic as weapon is clearly biased towards getting the exact same for every girl...

Not staying competitive means your progression slows to a crawl compared to those who started at start and were luckier/spent a lot. Even if we consider the only fun factor being unlocking... rather bad scenes - this exact thing is pretty much becoming much slower for you, since you are in much worse position to farm the events.
Obviously after a year you will catch up with most non girl 'unlockables', even if you start now and go through the same route the others took but much slower... well, unless they raise the cap obviously.
But even after reaching said cap - unless you got extremely lucky - you have worse girl setup than those who played longer anyway.

It has two servers and the population is rapidly dropping in both - only a matter of time until server 1 will remain at around 100 active players and server 2 will probably descent even lower in half a year or so.
So basically, you played the game briefly at launch and wrongly assume that nothing could possibly have changed since then.

You're mistaken to be so fixated on UR generals. If you were to assemble a team of whatever UR generals you want, all level 55, and whichever inherited UR general skills you want, I could easily tear you apart with the team I actually use. For that matter, another player building purely around SSR generals would tear you apart. Your UR Tiger of Kai will be useless because it will never have higher speed than the targets it attacks in such a scenario, leaving Master Strategist as your only decent damage dealer, and without any way to get much to buff her damage.

At launch, UR The Tiger of Kai was the only exceptionally strong general. Today, there are four:

UR Tiger of Kai
UR Master Strategist
SSR Takeda Shingen of Kai
SSR Sanada Yukitaka

If you're into PVP, then maybe you want to add:

SSR Takenaka Hanbei
SSR Uesugi Kenshin

Uesugi Kenshin isn't very good in PVE, though. And if you believe that the Japanese wiki is indicative of the content that will come over here, more top tier generals are coming.

The new event probably gives a universal EVO card. I'm probably going to save it because I have nothing worth using it on, even though I have 7 UR generals that I don't yet have a four star version of.

Temple and church are both viable. There are only two players on my server who have cleared the entire campaigns. One uses temple and the other uses church. Of the 16 players in the round of 16 in the daimyo tournament, 2 use church characters only, 5 use temple characters only, and 9 use at least one of each. None of the temple character only players have any hope of winning, though one of the church only players has been daimyo several times. If you restrict to the four players who have been daimyo in the last three months, you get 11 temple characters and 9 church characters.

As for a rapidly dropping playerbase, the first time I reached the round of 32, I had to win five matches to do so. This week, I had to win four. That means that my best estimate is a playerbase that has dropped by half in the last four months or so. I wouldn't call that catastrophic.