R* might change those roleplay servers into SaaS to make money out of it, they might fire the good engineers/or engineers just quit after they are fed up with corp BS, R* might restrict some of these server’s features that got these servers popular in the first place like car’s types etc., so who knows.
I've zero belief in anything about this being good long term given what R* and take two have done the last few years..
They call it "donations", but it's not donations; they just copied the microtransaction model from GTA:O without actually making the content themselves.
I stopped playing the game (online) due to very long loading screen between missions