I started playing on Cuen in the 'long ago', a time I can't put a specific date on. It was that era when Wheel of Time roleplaying had passed its golden age, Angreal MUSH was shut down, and staff were still involved in actual plot.

This has since changed. Wheel of Time roleplay is dead as far as history is concerned; players have moved on to other things.

What killed it? I would say that a staff singularly disinterested in RP but heavy on the red-tape. Players bothered enough to come up with TP ideas were irritated to discover that staff, and certain staff in particular, already had their special PC characters. And if you didn't like that, you would be 'disappeared' by some random Forsaken or super-strong channeler of Segade or Nynaeve's invention that was impossible to kill.

Actual character development was set aside and in its place, we were given the Traveling weave. Exciting RP was replaced with impossible enemies who drove players away in droves. Every position of power meant for Players (the Amyrlin/Keeper, city officials, Mistress of Novices [Tower RP being the center of the MUSH], etc) were increasingly staff controlled, so players have increasingly little say in anything on the MUSH.