Follower count isn’t meaningful as long as you’re still broadcasting to the relays you were before you’ll have the same reach.

As for profile metadata, does it load when you click on the profile? I’d say 90-95% are loading for me, well outside my paid relay reach.

We don’t have perfect coverage of all profile metadata because many people have not updated their profiles in a long time and so it hasn’t been saved to our aggregator.