That’s the current situation.
Though I guess we should be well in the dust settling phase.
There’s also one more external effect that might be worth considering, which is that the average level of playing might be going up.
Nowadays you have easy access to ai reviews for every game you play. If you speak English there’s a wider availability of courses, videos, books than were available before. There’s still probably more than there was I guess in other languages too, with live streams and video content. Availability of lessons from strong players is potentially higher also.
So if we have players that have been a certain rank over a number of years, if you’ve been at 3 or 4 dan for the last 10 years, then maybe that rank is deflating, not because you’ve gotten weaker but because the player base is getting stronger.
I’ve been fairly slowly improving over the years, but I think if I stop actively trying to improve I probably won’t just stay at my current level, I’ll drop down, in EGF rank even, not even thinking about OGS necessarily.