I'm a 2015 player, I have around 32 thousand hours of Ark, I saw Ark's performance before and after the genesis and the easy element maps, things lose their value, the dinos lose their value
My suggestion is:
1° Making the element difficult or competitive, for example extinction, warns the entire server that there are people acting out.
2nd Make the towers and structure more difficult to destroy, and it's bizarre that you can play for 6 months and lose your base in seconds to a manager flying very fast with rockets on your towers, or desmodus/snow flying on your wall
Nerf the Caves, makes it harder to destroy structures, makes reproduction harder by adding mating time to the male, that way people don't breed 60 dinosaurs at once, the game had a lot of value when things were hard to get, when if you reach your goals, what else can you do that is actually fun
Put a limit on the flak blueprint, flaks at 1800 durability and absurd.