Custom Sea is like when Safer Seas was released...
Released Safer Seas "Does that mean were getting PvE only servers?!"

players quick to jump the gun

They announced custom seas awhile ago. Over a year ago it was planned to be a paid for monthly service when released but it had a lot of negative feedback and most people weren't going to pay for it so they knew that and decided to make it free for everyone. So if you weren't watching all the developer updates and reading the monthly news releases then you are so far out of the loop unfortunately. You should go back and look at the stuff you've missed

@obscureberry192 said in Is Custom Seas our death knell?:

We are all painfully aware of corporate's treatment of the Sea of Thieves staff and the resulting consequences to gameplay. And now SoT has handed us the keys to largely recreate the game for ourselves (though with certain obvious limitations).

Question: does this suggest that we may soon be seeing the final days of technical support?

No.

They've wanted to add Custom Servers almost from the start; after an inital version (that only allowed adding people to ships without any other customisation), IIRC they said they they had to change the code so they could add the toggles &c and made those features work.