To add onto everything in this post, people are more interested in purchasing money than actually running meth and grinding for cash.
Granted, a decent chunk of people don't want to run it due to server issues, but other than that, it feels like people in most gangs want to log on, fight, then log off. My favourite time to play is currently around 2am my time when the Synergy old guard log on and we all do random shit like fight cops, take over HQs, and rebel patrol. It's a lot of fun and I always find myself struggling to log off for bed because i've been waiting for it all day.
Maybe things will change if the servers are fully stable again.