Sorry if this comes off as a rant I feel like this is Important to say because I believe theirs so much wasted potential in TOS, I've seen personally one of my favourite social deduction games slowly crumble into nothing with TOL, now I barely play TOS anymore just because the game is so bland and gotten less fun overtime, with basically the only two active game modes being ranked or all any (normal/coven)
Community perception:
A lot of people (including me), feel like the game has been neglected lately, we all understand that traitors in Salem was a big project (I'm not going to really go into detail here but it's clear that people still prefer TOS, I gave it a try and it wasn't for me). But now that we're more then years in from no major updates its starting to feel like theirs generally hope for any sort of future changes and that the game will steadily drop in numbers, This game is pretty successful still remains pretty popular for a niche, A lot of people just want some adjustments and things to be excited about really, forums have slowly died overtime due to many things, biggest is lack of feedback and clarity to what's even the future of TOS, lack of hope any meaningful changes will be made why discuss stuff? when people know nothings going to likely be added.
Balance:
Town of salem currently is in this weird state where a lot of the balance is really awkward for one, we've had many steps in the right direction but it's nearly not enough, Putting Nks into ranked? ok but did any of the nks get properly balanced for ranked play? nope. Has anyone done anything about the balance of Jester/exe in ranked nope? has any balance been made to make roles such as Spy, Transporter or Jailor more fair? nope. We need some good and decent balance for ranked to be a successful and fun game mode, we need to either move to a Fun ranked mode with neutrals and more chaos factors or move to a balanced ranked mode, this half attempt of being "fun" with chaotic roles such as NK doesn't really work. Neutral evil outside of witch is a joke, All any? I'm sorry but its fun but it feels like its the only playable decent game mode currently.