Poking through some stats for the mod archive, so have some interesting data points.

>Traffic for the mod archive peaked around May-June 2025, at around 12m unique 'users', as measured by Cloudflare, and upwards of 1.2 billion requests/month.
>Starting around end of July/early August, and the release of 7.3, this number began trending down, further accelerating at the end of August with the death of Mare.
>In the space of approximately 2.5 Months, the net traffic and user count has dropped to roughly 1/4th what it was previously.

Make what you will of the data. It typically serves as a pretty good proxy for overall FFXIV interest and modding interest overall. Though the correlation is obviously not 1:1.