I see your point and say yes to some, no to some.
I'm going to share an experience I had had with another game that somewhat reset itself.
The game had begun in 2000, it's prime was in 2007 in which a game update had occurred and basically killed the game, in 2010 the developing team had managed to rebuild the game and more and more retired players would come back and play, but it still never had the old feeling of 2007.
Now this is just an experience, and the company that made this game is extremely rich, pays people to work for them and can host like 1000+ servers with 2000 players each.
What they decided to do was in 2013 bring back some servers from 2007 and never update the game, however, everyone had to start over again, the economy was scratched. So you had 2 games, the present 2013 game with all the updates and the 2007 game with a new start.
Even if you wanted to play on the severs in 2007, your old character for the present game in 2013 wouldn't be deleted so you could still play there.
So that's the experience, everything got reset because almost everything wasn't fun in the game anymore, my point is, probably not going to happen and not saying I want it to happen is to bring out a server or 2 that people can play NI in like 4.2 or something, I'm not sure.
Again, just saying, I'm not saying I want this to happen, was just an experience I wanted to share, I'm happy with the current game as it is. Keep it up devs and admin team, not to mention the community