The Center was never on their tier, and never will be.
Ark has too many maps and releasing them in the original order is a big mistake. SE as the second map was pathetic and did nothing to help either growing their playerbase or getting ASE players to move over. There are hundreds of articles, listicles, and reddit posts to gather info from, but they do not care. They should have dropped at least 3 maps from ASA and released them later, if ever, based on their cash flow and community feedback.
This studio is incompetent - always has been, always will be. The CEO is a Communications major from ASU ffs!