60+ on ts? Lol, in fact 51 had to be there, so it's nothing. Trust me strat is dead, I had times with 100+ people in ts waiting for a slot. And we even managed to make full EU rosters during day or even morning.
Well, neither 100 players in ts nor night/morning battles are good, I'd say there are enough players playing strat atm to make it interesting.
There are other problems that make it boring - totally imbalanced sides(ofc if Apostates, Coalition and Crusaders kept playing actively there would be some interesting wars, but we deal with facts here and the fact is that strat slogan for most eastern factions is "Who cares about strat"
), still stupid night time system while it would be much better to set prime time instead, nearly unlimited resources(probably some players enjoy when you can buy plate armor for all troops but for me fights with medium armor are much more interesting).
However in main I agree with you: strat need some love from devs or it will die rather sooner than later. And this love should be directed to game mechanic, not visual representation which is already very nice.