Payouts to authors are down. Curation rewards are up, but still down in $ terms and that mostly goes to larger users. User activity, overall engagement is down. September was the worst month for user activity in 2 years.
The only measurable positive has been reduced inflation, but if you want free transactions and no inflation you should use Nano (it has no users).
Mine has been up. I think a shift is probably more likely.
We need to do research on this subject.
The first week mine were up, then I started getting dv.. Now it has leveled out, I would say my total rewards are about the same.