Oh I'm sooooooo sorry that people who join the site don't live up to your elevated opinion of yourself.

Any social media type of website is a living organism, and they all change over time. Partly it is that we change, and partly it is that society is changing and evolving as well. Nothing is static. I've been on FB for 13 years, I joined as a college student when it was only open to college students. (yes, I was a non-traditional college student.) I cannot count all the changes I've seen. Same here, lots of changes. It is part of life.

I wish some people on here would stop trumpeting their ATHEISM, as if it's a badge of honor, a default status quo position.
Congratulations!
As an AGNOSTIC I find it extremely obnoxious, off-putting and insulting to those of us who do NOT share their views.
Maybe that's why many if us with more open-minded and interesting things to say are discouraged from sharing them, pre-occupied as some of us are with resisting this apparently wholesale hijacking, this slow-motion coup, this elbowing off the stage of anyone who thinks all subjects are open for discussion, including 'god.'
After all, Agnostics DON'T KNOW if there's a 'god' or not, but that doesn't mean the very mention of any topic entertaining anything to do with the subject should be met with sarcasm, derision, and catcalls. That doesn't leave much to talk about but a steady drumbeat of anti-religious screed.
Hey, I'm as anti-religion as any atheist, but that SHOULD be just the beginning of the discussion. Frankly, it's very easy to the point of being trite (and BORING) to point out the many corrosive influences of orthodox religious thought. That's a given.
But to stop there and to shout down even a sniff of anything 'spiritual,' that is, any alternative takes on what appears to be a nearly universal curiousity about our existence in the universe (except to say it is meaningless and pointless, of course), is discouraging to all but the most cynical and nihilistic among us.
Just a thought.

IMO That was because it was all new to you...I'll bet if you graphed or speadsheet discussions by category, it is still about the same.

Let's not blame the members of this site exclusively. I think the change in discussions reflects the changes in everyday life over the last few years. Because of isolation, many of us are no longer having real-life conversations. At the same time social media has gotten increasingly toxic so meaty topics quickly descend into chaos. Ideas may not flow through society like they used to.

Plus bottom line, Maslow's hierarchy confirms that people who are worried about safety and security are not as interested in philosophy.

I do see a lot of the same questions and ideas being posted. I don't even bother clicking on them. I don't spend a lot of time on the site, certainly a lot less time than when I first joined a couple years ago. That's probably why I've been stagnant at level 7.