Actually not, the state of mind has kinda been shifting from that perspective lately. Running is unfair and people don't like to lose to runners, but we're coming to a point it's accepted and if you don't catch up to the runner it's your own fault. We're a few trying to make wushu evolve to limit running inside the boundaries of what's possible with the modmaker. I introduced a dojo and a better point distribution for instance (wushu_2015), snake made a physical octogon (wushu3box) but they both need further tweaks and aren't "final products".
Marstunom is supposed to be working on a dome-like room on which we'll put no-friction, and we'll see what happens.

We can also expect some new metagoals and winning conditions, such as a "win treshold by points" in the future. That'd be great.

Wushu is not dead, it's actually the only mod that has a community actively trying to improv it, and every mod could use some improvement.

Also, And I see a lot of new faces around in wushu lobbies.

Edit :

And if we're gonna take a look at the server list at moment X, I've also seen 8 almost empty mushu rooms and 2 crowded wushu rooms at moment Y.

Edit 2 :

There actually are as many players in the 2 wushu rooms right now as there are players in the 6 mushu ones (17 and 17).