OP: I chuckled over your comment "It consumes probably too much of my time each day".  So true.

And others in this and other threads have expressed my pessimistic opinion on SA's future.

PRO Subscription: How many of us retired folks have an extra more than 1% of our income available for PRO?

"You can get access to our entire research library with a PRO subscription."

Yup. At $600.00 a year.  Or $75.00 monthly.   No thanks.

Two week Free trial?  With Credit Card.   No thanks.

My personal observation:  Fewer valuable comments.  Probably due to a readership drop-off since we can't see the older articles that we used to use as part of our knowledge gathering for a stock that caught our eye.

As the OP said: "This sounds like they just started a leaking downward spiral of this value/content on their site as losing users begets losing more users."