Lead survey maintainer here; we are aware of the problem and are working on a new data visualization that will use historical data to highlight how bad the graphs are getting year over year, so we can really narrow down the issue.
I’ve for some reason started reading the headline “the state of X” as a sort of world-weary “the absolute state of X.”
Libraries -> Changes Over Time is particularly hard to read
It’s a great visualisation but could be 3d with time as depth, not brightness.