This you are correct on. This forum does not represent instagram, whatnot, and reddit. Most of the people on E4 are serious collectors who have been collecting for time measured in years to decades, not months. Maybe this sounds elitist, but the average E4 user is more experienced, more informed, and more involved in the hobby than the rest of the ““community”” on these other sites.
We’ve also played this game over and over again. If we listened to the ““community opinion,”” PSA has consistently been getting harsher and harsher since the 4xxx certs back in 2020. And I have the old threads to prove it.
So, what is it? Has PSA consistently been getting harsher on every card since early 2020? Or maybe since 2020 there’s been a fundamental shift in the Pokemon hobby that makes mint cards much harder to find, incentivizes people to grade lower condition copies of high-value set cards, and encourages people to resubmit their PSA 8s/9s in hopes of a 10, thereby increasing the 7/8/9 pop report even more. Does anyone remember anything big that happened in 2020 that might have led to this? I might have to go ask whatnot for their opinion.