Those sites are really pure blogging sites, as opposed to a social blogging site.
I find the same. I feel there is more interaction here, even though there are less comments perhaps.
Haven't heard of coinstar - interesting concept :)
Perhaps the timeline is being pushed up with corona, that will eat millions of jobs that won't return in the US alone. Then, the civil unrest we are seeing is symptomatic of these issues, which will drive the shift to new opportunities harder. It will take time to normalize of course, but it might not take that much time - Time will tell though ;)
I imagine the schedule is being fast tracked by Covid and the world situation... more and more people here realize that the jobs they have been laid off from, or "furloughed" from simply won't BE there, ever again.
In the background, there is a mass of automation activity going on, plus demand will drop in some consumer areas. So, it is pretty bleak for many.