Lots of responses to a comment I explicitly did not make. Let me try and spell it out for you folks:

demand was suppressed by an access bottleneck, the bottleneck is gone, expect a magnitude of change proportional to how much demand was actually pent up rather than proportional to how much programmers currently think was reasonable to deny.

Explicit things I am not saying: gatekeeping was bad, feature creep is good or desirable, etc. etc. etc.