Fewer new sites to be evaluated at GPWA

I'm not sure if I'm right, but I'm experiencing a decline in the number of topics in the new site evaluation section.
For the past few months, there have been far fewer of them appearing than there used to be.

However, as I say, my perception may be wrong. Probably there are more informed people whether this is really the case in the forum statistics, maybe they can confirm or deny.

However, if my hunch is true. That is, a decline in activity in the new site ratings section, with no decline in overall activity, could mean fewer affiliate sites overall.

What do you think, perhaps the overall required time for results sometimes months, years with work for free does not attract new people to create sites?
Or is the market already highly saturated?
Or the many regulated markets where it's hard for big companies to break through?

Is my perception wrong and there are as many or more sites on GPWA. Or the number of threads on the forum can't be indicative of what's going on in a market with hundreds of thousands or millions of sites?