The general consensus regarding Bannerlord on the Steam forums is that multiplayer is somehow a boogieman that stops the singleplayer game from having DLC-sized content updates, as if a few guys editing text files for multiplayer weapon stats is stopping the game from getting new art assets and story content. If you ask a decent amount of people on Steam regarding Bannerlord's multiplayer, you'd get the typical "Euthanize the multiplayer dog" response, with some threads talking about multiplayer specifically just getting locked on Steam.
So yeah, I'm a bit concerned that the devs might consider just shutting everything down, with the only thing we can realistically hope for being that another game gets crowned as some kind of partially official multiplayer mode for Bannerlord, like how War of the Roses and War of the Vikings had 10% discount for people who owned Warband.