I don't think its gonna change the way people play. I would consider this a tedious part of Rust and will likely just be annoyed with the upkeep part, especially with mats capping at 1k in your stack unless you buy by drone. If I found it too annoying it would likely just cause me to quit sooner in the wipe. As it is now, there aren't many people in the last two weeks of wipe. I don't think adding an annoying upkeep requirement is gonna make someone stay longer if that's the goal. Gaming is supposed to be fun,, not a burden. I like the no decay, its not vanilla but neither is not having horses spawn in the wild, capping cars spawning and being able to buy items from the RustEz store. Are those things going to change to be more Vanilla too? I vote leave no decay. But that's just my opinion.
Update: I really though my base was average. I have 24 large planters, 1 large furnace, 1 refinery, I parking area, 1 sleeping are, 1 community area for brad players, a landing pad and runway. All 1 story. So with the update to get rid of decay, it would cost me 47k stone per day. That's a lot of friggen stone. So my playing time will be feeding a TC instead of killing Brad and Karen and doing monument puzzles. Not sure players voting for decay are aware of how much it's gonna require to upkeep.