The problem is that recent updates as well as stated plans for the future of the game seem to all head in a direction that will just discourage and hamper RP even more, like the one this thread was about. And so far there's been absolutely no words from the devs about any changes regarding the state of RP or how they're working to improve, what we do see a lot of is divisive changes with a heavy focus on moving the game away from RP and more and more towards a pure TDM experience. What's worse is that past changes have only removed features from the game in an effort to improve the transition towards TDM, again in detriment of RP and atmosphere.
To put it plainly, old CM could accomodate both RPers and TDMers, but devs have been taking the game in a direction that wil only be for the TDM experience in detriment of anything else.