This indeed proves my other post about the new 1.10 info, and that blizz hasn't given up on D2.
(copied from
www.diabloii.net)
1.10 is a lot of work as it's the biggest patch in terms of changes (not file size) ever released by Blizzard (except for beta patches). It's practically an expansion with all of the changes.
There are 100+ new items. There is a new character template (ladder), and many more things. If all the changes were listed line by line it would be 25-50+ pages. This requires time to test all this stuff and keep in mind there's lots of other stuff to work on such as Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, StarCraft Ghost, and World of Warcraft.
If Blizzard didn't care about Diablo II they wouldn't continue to fix hacks/cheats (do it all the time without announcement), they wouldn't be planning on addressing hacked items, they wouldn't spend any time working on the realms or have the free realms (they cost $$), they wouldn't be working on 1.10.
Basically copied from GFrazier's post on
www.battle.net .