Like I said CS has been dying since 2007. It shouldn't be an 'argument'. If anything I'm surprised cs has still managed to live on. When CGS split the 1.6 community, CPL died and Gotfrag died it killed the entire NA scene just like Valorant did but still managed to live 5 more years until Valve released CSGO which killed cs1.6. Also Dota I shouldn't be compared to LoL. Dota like CS1.6 had no backing from anyone, it was all community driven. Some prizemoney were not paid, sponsor issues etc.
How did you even get 14 million player base? I thought riot doesn't even release this information. Also boosting a game from streamers doesn't make the 1 million count honest it much more of a fallacy if anything else.
You seem to forget that counter-strike has no Valve support ever since they bought the mod in circa 2004. All tournaments are created from community until they released CSGO. With Valorant though, you have Riot backing you from the get go and a lot of money into prizepool in different regions. With CS as an esport people just lost interest in the game as time went on, much like Starcraft I.
Thorin is not afraid, because it doesn't matter if CS is gone, he can keep pumping work into other esports as his life revolves around it. If you want a fair comparison put old Quake or UT3 in there. IT's a dead game but journalists from that era still has work in other life in esports. Also thorin has been working since the Early days of eSports which meant he used to work for peanuts and used to seeing the demise of other games. I don't think he will be afraid anytime soon. Having that said I disagree with many of the things he has said esp on twitter.