I made a thread about survival games returning a while ago, and since then alot has happened. This is less of a suggestion to get this added back and more of a 'who would want this gamemode back' at this point. On my last thread about hunger games I had a poll, yes, no, or yes after infection is added. Obviously infection being added back is a little delayed. Mostly making this thread to see if the playerbase on mv wants hunger games or not.
Survival games was always a dead minigame even when mineverse had more players though. what could've changed now?
Removing kits, better maps, adding statistics, maybe some plugins that would make it more playable. Biggest problem I see is that even if this minigame/gamemode is brought back it wouldn't bring back any old players cause like you stated not many people even joined the lobbies, unlike with infection/bedwars/skywars.
I believe if the minigames solution goes well with first trying to get bedwars, skywars and infection eventually added back then maybe we can branch out. I think though we should get the ones that actually had popularity back before the ones that didn't.