To us older (?) folk it seems indeed that the priorities are elsewhere these days as casual observation of the forum suggests that its use and the participation of some regulars is somewhat less than it was a year or so ago.
As one might expect the culture changes and is perhaps 'different' every decade. It is now obvious that many of the long-term participants in this forum have retired completely and don’t visit any more or perhaps are ‘observers only’. Some recent threads in the past would have generated significant discussion, but that does not seem to occur that much now (??).
At least one other aviation forum seems to have only a small number of vocal participants on subjects that are most likely of personal interest and do not generate wide discussion.
Of course, there is good old Facebook, in which some of the many ‘Groups’ have significant discussion on specific subjects eg: old aircraft, history etc.
Things might change, but we will just have to hang in to see how it pans out. The upside is that we know that many of the decision makers make it their business to keep a finger on the prune pulse, which can only be a good thing (saves writing to the Minister!)