The even better was as much as I like Touhou I don't have to see yet another doujin with Remilia Scarlet on it for the xxx time. Doujin and artwork circles moved to different things.
and STILL no English version despite the growing fan-base over here
I'm pretty sure the fanbase over here is the size of peanuts. It's not as if Kancolle's fanbase is still super big right now (Azur Lane and other new fad games that are more within people's attention), so it'll be a waste of time and money. If they hadn't done it back when it was at it's golden age, doing it now would just be throwing money into the sea.
From the way they monetize the franchise (which they haven't shown intention of moving away from), it's probably never that feasible to sustain foreign servers to begin with, even when it was still at its peak popularity. Too much risks with low returns.
Then again it was DMM side that refused to expand, probably out of legal concerns.
