I think you're right about the Splinterlands during the Covid lockdowns, but after 2017 Hive lost ~1M users that signed up and gave it a shot. Those were authors and curators, until they got flagged off.
Edit: Hive was still Steem back then.
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A logarithmic y-axis would be good for this plot: authors and curators are barely visible. But you are right: in 2017, there were many more authors than in 2021 and later on.