When I started two years ago there weren't really any Monero focused clients, now we have 3 to 4 in active development.

There's a big Monero follow list on https://following.space/

And I've seen a few people who never heard, or talked about Monero before start talking about it.

As well as some Nostr vendors potentially beginning to accept it.

It just seems like the crowd of monero users are becoming stronger, more focused, and unified.