MCSG's not dead, just most of the way through the process of dying. It's a shadow of what it once was.
I'm sure whatever "improved anti-cheat" the devs come out with will either be entirely useless or ban innocent players. My confidence in the MCSG dev team is at rock bottom.
Glitches don't get fixed, the community is crap, the majority of the staff never seems to do much, and many old players have deserted.
Meanwhile, shoutout to
Unsightly for having some perspective. Most mods blindly ignore the cold reality of the situation and make off topic comments (like about the exact definition of the word dead lmao).
Let me ask you this: why would I put myself through MCSG's barely-functioning, hacker filled, team ridden PvP experience when I could go to different server?
The only answer I can come up with is sentimental value (I've played since 2012), but if you weigh sentimentality and fun, fun wins every time.
EDIT: lol a mod removed the name of a different server in my post, but I think most of us know what "mostly hacker free, team free, well coded server for PvP" I'm referring to when I talk about alternatives to MCGamer.