Do you really see a future with smite still?

It's an honest question and I don't mean to create another one of these kind of posts, as it tends to go. I'm a long time Smite fan at this point, for about 7-8 years now. I'm looking at the steam charts which admittedly only account for approximately 30-50% of the total population but 5k online really doesn't give me much hope. I started playing joust with my wife about a year ago and it started off pretty strong and we had good games but I've noticed over the last few months that we just run into smurfs and our team mates always camp fountain like they've never played the game before and can't figure out what to buy. To the point where we've been considering having another one of our accounts join our party so we can DC with it and have a better chance 2v3 and getting more experience without the 5 year old on our team.