Counter Strike Source Feels Hopeless. (mostly a rant and question)

I loved playing CS:S so much back in 2014-2015 but now that I've came back it seems like this game has just over all taken a turn for the worse. The server is spammed with fake 255/255 servers and almost every other server seems to mostly just be taken over by bots. When you use a server website like this one you can see just how little people play. It's sad, cause I used to really enjoy this game and now I've been banned from one of the more popular servers "Oh-Yeah!" for playing to well I guess.

I understand there is War-Lords but even then only one of the games seems to be populated for bugs and a lot of the DM servers are pretty much filled with bots. I've started playing 1.6 cause its much more easy to find servers that real people are playing on, but it just doesn't feel like source, source feels awesome make its just a nostalgia thing for me.

So it just makes me wonder, where have all the good servers gone? I never knew that CS:S was this empty and void of life, I remember back when I played a while ago it was in such a better place. I came back to CS:S because of the fact I don't like how the new CS2 feels.

Does anyone have any good server recommendations? I feel like besides awpclan and warlords nothing is really that worth playing on cause all the old head servers ban you for doing the most simple shit, and they wonder why their game is slowly dying.