I'm going to talk about my feedback as regards F2P twinking, because it's the only bracket I've known.
From what I've seen, lvl20 community is still there since the creation of starter account. So it means that since about 7 years, we have several people in the world who keep playing lvl20 despite the fact they can subscribe or leave the game because of the last expansion changes.
That's interesting, because a normal player would have never come back in normal times. I've seen a lot of players who leaved the game or subscribed and gave up lvl20 bracket, but I keep seeing others players as well who still play lvl20 when they may, no matter if they have a subscribe account or not.
Moreover, it seems that what makes our strength is the fact we have passion for this game format.
- We've experimented the twinks 24 and 29, who unbalanced the power relationship between them and us. Despite their strength, we are still there.
- We've experimented the WoD arrival in 2015. Despite the battlegrounds disappear in Russian, German and French servers, players from these communities are still there.
- More or less recently, we've also experimented a lot of drama stories on different forums / websites. We're still there, despite the unforeseen events, and despite the different opinions.
This is why I consider lvl20 community will keep existing as long as WoW lasts. We have a big history behind us, because we are different from normal WoW players. We don't play like them, we don't know the same problematics than them, we didn't share the same WoW-expansion changes than them and yet we keep playing together from different countries.
Passion is what makes our strength. Without passion, there wouldn't exist community, stories and involvement into this bracket.
Even if we can have different considerations about the future of our community, we have at least the advantage to be linked together and to want playing this game format together.
This is why I consider that as long as WoW will last, twink community will remain.