I play on the server because it is chill and relaxing. If I decide to take a couple of days off, I dont have to worry about my base decaying. With decay enabled it would be a nightmare unless I played daily which I mostly do now, but I would have to spend all my time farming for wood and stone instead of being able to enjoy the rest of what PVE has to offer. Even then nodes and trees would become scarce, as they are at the beginning of wipe.
If you were allowed to turn off the decay for those of us that are subscribers or vip, it would become something valuable again. However I know you are limited by what you can do in order to stay on the community page.
Being able to limit size or amount of foundations per team and per player would be an idea, if we are trying to limit size. Which I dont know if you can do and stay on the community page.
I feel that things became more of a problem when we lost the hammer and you were not able to destroy walls you later determed that you did not want. I was able to tear down my build if I didnt like it and start over. I have a shack that I started with, and cant remove it without using explosives. Again I guess this is a problem of not being able to use the plugin for this, thus not being able to have this and be able to stay on the community page.
I just do not feel enabling decay is the solution to the problem. Maybe a reduced decay along with other enforced restrictions? I do not know the answer to this issue.