Replaced with who? Lol, anyone who posses talents to work for a server, either do or don't want to. That's why PR team is overflowing and dev team is lacking on really any server.
Graal thrives off of conning people to work for free. If there is no one who knows how to do the jobs required, Graal goes away simply because they don't hire professionals and rely heavily on volunteers.
The flaw with this approach is that you are limited only to the people that actively take in content from Graal, and out of those, the ones who are willing to learn what it takes to dev. Which if anyone has been paying attention, is dwindling lower and lower as the time goes by. People would much rather take the easier approach by calling themselves a "PR".
Fun fact, Graal needs scripters, however those that do know how to script don't help or share that knowledge with others in a widespread basis (this could be because it is harder to teach scripting, idk I don't script, just speaking on what I've noticed over the years). Compare that to something like GFX or LAT, anyone can pick that up because that community is larger and people get help and feedback quickly alas helping them improve.
If you need more scripters, train some  |
Well said, but there's a simple answer. The vast majority of scripters are smart enough to realise they can take there talent elsewhere, and get paid for it.
In here I go into more detail (as well as most of my occasional posts recently) about the, imo, unethical actions implemented by Eurocenter since Graal's inception.
The developers that stay, and hang around, are still around for one of two things:
1. The social scene/reminiscing on the ol' days (ie. most people <2012 lol).
2. Too lazy, unaware or lack of interest in pursuing better and bigger things in the field of programming and software engineering.
And these 2 reasons keep Graal up and running and the content flowing.