That place is high paced cause it's new, it's gonna slow down a bit for sure.
I don't think there's anything wrong with it. La Liga, Serie A and other threads will have it's attention when it comes to football in general, but not individual players. It was too hard to have players' discussion at some thread like that, you don't get much feedback because there are too many topics at the same time so it vanishes.
I personally think it won't harm the forum. Hangout section exists everywhere, but it's a lot more active on this forum. I didn't even see this on other forums, I got the idea out of nowhere.