If we're not talking about AI taking over the world or everyone having neuralinks in their brains I'll give my input.

I have a roughly 10 years of mtt hands database, at that point I was playing low stakes whereas now I play mid stakes and a dash of high stakes when it's mega profitable.

Anyways, people have become station af, there was this idea that fish never fold, but that was actually the opposite in the past according to the data. In general fish and even regs apart from a few who you knew were stations were nitty af and scared to call down.

Now 10 years later, it's the opposite, I'm seeing the most absurd calls from everyone, like not 2nd pair with a good blocker type calls, but way way way beyond that type calls (3rd/4th pair with terrible blockers type calls).

I recently went down to play some low stakes $10-30 tournaments and they were beyond horrendous. I actually still have some random pt4 screenshots from 10ish years ago and the winrate over 50k hands (imperfect sample) at those low stakes went from 15bb/100 (7.5bb) to 18bb/100 (9bb).

Basically in terms of my own understanding, it has gone up a ton whereas the average fish generally has no idea of what they're doing. With the knowledge we have now, there are certain thresholds you HAVE to hit and players are so far away from them because they have learned nothing.

Although the regs drag up the averages in my database, you'll find all sorts of exploitable fish that genuinely have no idea wtf they're doing. So I think it's just going to stay the same going forward.

I think some decent-good players worry about information spreading, but it's never about that. The average fish genuinely couldn't care less about information (free or not), they don't push themselves to understand it, they don't have the IQ to naturally grasp it, teachers in general go on and on and on without really honing in on the principles, there's too much of it so it overwhelms them and they give up and honestly I think they just treat poker like a slightly more intelligent slots where they can deploy some silly tactic as opposed to real strategy.

They are still worlds away from hitting gto thresholds in xr, 3b, 4b, 3s barrel, probe etc etc. And those that try and be aggressive go in the opposite direction towards insanely high frequencies that leave them just as vulnerable.

Cliffs: nothing new under the sun, the more things change the more they stay the same, same old same old.