There were an insane amount of exploits that let people get to endgame within the first week, so I stopped playing. My friends and I check in on the game periodically to see if it will wipe. If it does, we'll play, if not, we won't. Simple as that. I know a lot of other people in the situation.
So it looks like the choices are A: Don't wipe and keep the small minority of plays you have now, many of whom obtained unfair advantages via exploitation, or B: Wipe and massively expand the player base.