I did go and check to see if I was just imagining it, and I'm not. As far as the number of replies for diaries still up on the forum page (there may have been some archived in both forums, not sure) 2016 had 12 dynasties with over 40 pages of replies, 4 of which had over 100 pages. TEW 2020 doesn't have a single diary with over 40 pages of replies. Also, TEW 2016 has 67 pages of dynasties and 2020 only has 35. Nearly double the pages with some dynasties that were vastly longer.