It wasn’t based on clickbait. It’s based on a comparison of actual numbers from CoO compared with now, and the current Bungie Studio Head Justine Truman’s own words. The title of the video is clickbait, but the substance behind it isn’t. Numbers are lower now than CoO and the trajectory is similar. Bungie were literally 5 weeks away from shutting down back then in CoO, according to Truman’s own words. The situation isn’t exactly the same, but it is a cause for concern.

I do understand that. But I don't think the situation is comparable. CoO was one year after launch of D2, Activision had its say and the game was relatively spoken "immature". Lots of more pressure on Bungie back then. Now we are in a mature game and most likely they could let just run the servers, of course with a negative impact on revenue but it might work for them. Anyway. In the end it's none of us deciding about D2's fate. Until servers go down I will play as long as it's fun for me.

I agree with your statement that it won’t die in the sense of server shutdown (yet) but the game that Destiny use to be and the magic it has already died. It won’t ever come back.

Maybe. But you can squeeze out such an "idea" for only a given time. Imho. It's not a question of whether it will end but only by when. I don't think that will happen any time soon but who knows...