Just to address a couple of your points OP, as I don't feel you're representing these points entirely fairly:
- The last update may have introduced lots of bugs, but previous updates have also introduced lots of bugs that take time to work out. Don't forget that the last update was also unprecedented in its range of changes to the game - more parts of the game being touched by a single update than ever before. It's natural therefore that the bugs would be numerous, especially consoles which don't get to participate in betas. Remember that Xbox was affected by a Lagrange cloud bug that shut down consoles. I also think it's natural that the bugs are going to take a whole to get through. Bugs that weren't in beta suddenly rear their heads in the live game, some bugs that were in the beta didn't get time for fixes, and some bugs (like background stars loading near the core) are very long-standing (so much so that I don't think FD know how to fix them at this point). So I don't take bugs after an update as a red flag for the game dying.
- New content isn't being pushed back by 18 months - the next era is. There's still the quarterly updates that may introduce new content on a smaller scale. We know that the first two are primarily (but not exclusively) aimed at the new player experience, but after that it's back to "normal".
- Sales aren't a sign of a dying game by any stretch. They're signs of trying to grab potential new players.
- The CGs are being removed so that they can be reinstated in a new format, and as far as I am aware, that won't be too long a wait. Saying that it's a sign of doom is like someone saying that you're going to demolish your entire house when you knock down an internal wall to make renovations.
Calling red flags at this point just seems like you're not looking past the end of the month. Like anything that's further away than that might as well not be coming at all.
Also, starting a sentence with "and" is acceptable.
