I wrote two replies in the comment section that deserve to be an article, so here goes.

I assume that if SK were alive, he’d be eagerly updating the scripts to adapt to the current situation.

Honestly, I don’t know what he’d do, because what he was doing wasn’t working even when he was alive and apparently winning. In fact, he got himself killed by winning too hard.
But let’s do some guesswork by assuming he’s logical.
I don’t think he would update the scripts. The scripts are doing the best they can considering the circumstances. Modifying the standing rules or introducing new ones wouldn’t do anything useful. The problem is absence of energy in the system, and it’s a big problem, since everything is at absolutely critical levels and the systems have been failing for years due to the lack of energy to drive “positive” mechanisms of motivation. So, he would have to stop the process of energy depletion and add more energy to the system at all cost, but that’s easier said than done since it would require attracting very highly evolved souls here, deceiving them by his standard means – “recognise” him as God and pledge themselves to him – because the current state of the world makes it exceedingly unlikely for that to succeed, and also he’d be out of time, which would limit him to working on the souls that are already here. The problem is, the energy deficit he’s facing is such that the number of suitable matches is very low. Also, all of them are his sworn enemies and all past efforts in seducing them have failed. So, since that won’t work, he’d attempt tricking them into activities that would disrupt their spiritual structure and basically kill them, leaving the high energy crystals in his possession. The most likely approach would be to tempt them to attack critical systems and take on more karmic mass to process than they can handle, but there’s already a standing order to that effect and the scripts are implementing it, as it is one of the most effective things he’s been using against yogis since forever. They tend to be overachievers and egomaniacs who want to show everyone how great they are, and it’s easy to get them to kill themselves.
So, since this process is already in effect, I think he would be doing absolutely nothing, and no additional moves would be either possible or helpful. It does, however, show why he was so desperate to get rid of me when he did, to the point where he slipped on tea in the process. In fact, he already seems to have exhausted the timeline tweaking by that point – essentially, project into the future to see what happens, and tweak things to make them worse for me and more likely for him to win. However, winning more was a fatal move.

Am I getting this right? Are the social strings, the glue of community and interest in it, weakening due to SK’s final downfall?

The complexity of the global system is such that it might not be possible to answer such questions in a manner that makes any sense. It’s like asking whether more plastic in the oceans is due to global warming. Likely no, but it’s not like those things are not related, because humans dump plastic, shit and CO2 into the environment, but that still doesn’t mean there’s an actual anthropogenic global warming, so the question includes so many faulty premises one can’t just answer it.
The more direct cause of the failure of the young generations can be found elsewhere; first, the introduction of social media and mobile always-on devices for attaching to them seems to have more attraction than, basically, anything else for them. It’s like providing them with something that both promises a strong dopamine hit, and threatens them with very powerful negative consequences – social ostracism, ridicule etc. – so they just can’t leave it alone and it has priority over things like real-life social connections, reading books, walking in nature and so on. Since they got hooked on that very young, their entire neurochemistry was built around such dysfunction, like being addicted to some drug since birth. Also, since the smartphones and the nature of social media limit what you can actually do effectively, there was a race to the bottom in trying to attract maximum attention and praise with minimum text, and so memes and emojis replaced conventional human languages. At this point, if a human tries to write coherent sentences and express actual thoughts, he will be accused of being a chat GPT bot, because, apparently, AI fails the Turing test by being thoughtful and coherent, while humans have devolved into mime-emoji regurgitating imbeciles.
Sanat Kumar contributed to this, because he motivated the development of social media and interpersonal networks, trying to manifest an alternative to personal spiritual evolution by manifesting the oneness of brahman through oneness and interconnectedness of mankind. Like all his plans, this failed, and produced a collective animal-zombie-idiot.
Would this possibly have a different outcome were he here to inject some kind of a positive energy vector into this collective entity and guide it? Maybe, but if it needs deception and external energy source to give it a sense of meaning it would otherwise be unable to find, then it basically proves that such idea won’t work, even if it for some reason were not obvious from the start. You can’t manifest God by networking humans. What actually manifests is human emptiness without God. If you wanted to manifest God, you need to start with an individual connection with God, which is what you get with exactly the kind of spiritual evolution he had a problem with in the beginning, because he failed at it and had to watch those who succeeded.
So, as a conclusion, I would say that the social and civilisational decay and degradation is not a symptom of Sanat Kumar’s absence, but a symptom of failure of his actual plan, which is developing as it normally would without someone to tweak and prod it into faking some outcome that mimics non-failure.