Should the mods just close it since it was pretty pointless anyways? Or should they try to revive it and put it to some other use.
That's the whole point of off topic - to be irrelevant to this forum and not to have have any certain point. It is just always there, like trash. You can't eliminate a trash bin, because despite all your efforts, trash will appear one day, and you want to put it somewhere to keep other places clean.