Has there been a drop off in traffic in the last 5-6 years to coincide with the lower node reps? How about a big drop from the historically more addicted "power users"?

If not as many users are actively participating in the voting process and especially if the core user group has shrunk it would follow that overall node reps have dropped, yes?

I'm still pretty new around the monastery so I don't have even an impression of then (5-6 years ago) relative to now, but whatever the case I still think it's a pretty awesome community of people.