Laziness and the lack of skill among users are also contributing factors. As is the fact that the developers of TE and WOT have never taken this factor seriously.

We shouldn't forget that many players have computer skills on par with a housewife: they press a button, launch a shortcut, and that's it. Because of this, no one wanted to play TE, as it involved a lot of hassle. In WOT, initially, you only needed to launch setup.exe, and we already had a ready-to-use product, but over time, everything reverted to the level of TE. And if you add to this the attitude: "Let those who want to find everything themselves," you get complete neglect.

Lider1 may have written it a bit harshly, but he is right in many ways. With the advent of HD, the main advantages of WOT, such as quick buttons for transferring armies/artifacts and the chess timer, have become irrelevant. All that remains are GM adjustments, one-sided games, and the mirror match. If you add this to HD as well, then WOT can only be used for flipping a coin (which, by the way, could also be added to HD).