I appreciate the hard work within the RailSim/RaiWorks community that provides us custom content (routes, scenery, locomotives, rolling stock etc.) and scenarios. With that said, coming from MSTS, I'd have to say I've been spoiled by the 11 years worth of custom content provided by people in that community. Reading some of the posts here, it seems that creating and distributing custom content is becoming an issue. I don't know if this is just for the PayWare developers or if both PayWare and FreeWare are affected. If RSC is going to slowly close the sim and choke the life out of the community, they may as well fill the void by providing us with more rolling stock/locomotives/repaints and scenarios, particularly North American items. I'd actually pay good money for regularly released rolling stock DLC if it was realistic (not every car should be factory/paint shop fresh), encompassed a variety of rolling stock types, and contained enough content for the cost.
I actually prefer RW over MSTS (well, I still can't make hide nor hair of the scenario editor), but in my opinion, this sim won't continue to thrive unless RSC opens up the game to make content creation easier for developers or provide content of their own. I can only pull strings of generic hoppers for so long.
