You uninstalled it weeks ago, but who's to say that a sizeable portion of other players are doing the same? I go through waves of playing this game and then not touching it for weeks or months. It seems to be doing just fine, and your anecdote isn't going to change that. The fact that they're finally adding Infinite is neither here nor there either.
https://twitter.com/SEGAHARDlight/status/1757781753412952130?t=VZeRGe35Z7fNVAXhVnlmYQ&s=19 These costumes man. Combining this, Dash, and Speed Simulator, there are so many cool designs that just go unseen and unutilized by the console games. I know nothing of game preservation or 3D modeling, but I hope someone is archiving these so they can be implemented in other mod loaders.
Good luck with the Speed Simulator models, but the Speed Battle and Dash models are incredibly easy to rip since they're unity, and all the files are included in the games, so if they're pulled for some reason then their final versions should contain all the files anyways. The only thing that really isn't possible to snag is the actual animations from Speed Battle.