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It is not a problem if people are not posting to a community.
It's a slight problem, maybe, if that community is still showing up in lists of communities as if it were active, but there are enough places to find out about new or active communities that I think it is ok.
I actually think there is a community somewhere which is specifically for the purpose of "resurrecting" abandoned communities, but I'm not sure it's necessary, TBH. People are going to talk if they want to and not if they don't have something to say and I think it is ok.
The problem, as I see it, is the abandonment of communities by moderators.
For example, if I make a community community called "Baking", never post anything, and then disappear off back to Reddit (or whatever) I'm basically polluting the namespace of my server with a dead-end community that has no hope of ever growing into something active. Sure someone could make "Baking2" or "RealBaking" or whatever, but that kind of sucks and is messy.
Admins can gift abandoned communities to new mods, though, and often do. It's one of the nice things about having smaller units of organization instead of massive monoliths.
Not to mention you can just make another Baking community on a separate instance. No need to make "Baking2" or anything like that.
I think the problem we have is that we don't have the "power users" who submit all the content that everyone discusses and replies to. I don't think this is necessarily good or bad as there are pros and cons to these types of users, but at the end of the day you need new content to drive more engagement and creating new content is a ton of work with little payoff.