When the initial player base numbers are fucking unsustainable, this is a necessary and expected correction.
Panicked headline aside, there are still tens of thousands of players online at any given time and the game is doing extremely well at for not having had a proper expansion or new faction, and just the steady drip feed of new gear and equipment.
So... Burnout Paradise, but with competition for fares?
I don't want to play Uber: the Game.
Open world AAA is fine. Praying they are just blowing smoke with their MMO ambitions.