I would take a different approach to this using a direct database query to get a list of author IDs ordered by recent posts.
global $wpdb;
$user_ids = $wpdb->get_results(
"
SELECT DISTINCT post_author
FROM $wpdb->posts
ORDER BY post_date DESC
"
);
if ( $user_ids ) {
foreach ( $user_ids as $user_id ) {
$user = get_user_by( 'id', $user_id );
// do stuff with $user
}
}
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