I just logged in after a month or so, just to pay the taxes, lol.
DU would need a total overhaul, as I have suggested in many of my videos ... but in order to do that, they would need funding, a lot of it. Which I guess they don't have.
Maybe they should have made another Kickstarter campaign? But, with clear goals, good devs, etc. Since DU only has a few planets, it would not fall victim to the proc-gen shite which creates "a 1000 planets" with nothing to do on them .... so they would need to hand craft the existing planets, fill them with interesting locations, POIs, quests, aliens, mysteries, super unique loot to be found, --- imagine that.
To do this, they would probably need some, say 50 million $ ... -- but, since that would make the game actually really really appealing, it would then probably attract many more players, as in thousands of them who would gladly keep paying the subscription - because DU would be a one-of-a-kind game -- one where you have the exploration potential of a good RPG, with good quests and lore, but also the power of voxel building.