"Readership", people and scrapers, have varied over the decades. The initial boost from AI is over for this blog, although one of my other blogs is getting "millions" of views a month.
So why the bloom off the PEU rose?
It's smart not to say bad things about your financier, especially as a politically connected TechGod.
Politicians Red & Blue love PEU and their new TechGod brethren and increasingly, more are one.