I do not know what is better, I feel myself like my parents or grandparent when they start saying "when I was young everything was better" so for me the time in 2017 was better although maybe that is just very relative. We will see how it develops, because we used to curate Artworks all the time we can see how the number of Artists and Artworks dramatically shrunken. but also many people who were active and used to be my friends are not active anymore. I hope that maybe in other tags the number of posts increased. But I am afraid there are not many new users there. Of course there are many people who creating second, third or forth account, like that one who downvoting everyone with 10% this is one and the same person but has multiple accounts.

Anyway, like you we have also heard that great news and such high quality special effect series. We definitely will watch it :)