I’m well aware you’re blindly focused on your own personal view of EVE to be the only true and complete version of EVE gameplay. And I do hope that the way you take every possible opportunity to claim the victories of the fleet you’ve been F1-monkeying for as your own personal stats is working for you - you appear to have a lot to compensate for.
However when I talk about the game, I actually refer to game-wide statistics rather than one persons experience, however puffed-up that may be. So the MERs show a significant drop in destruction/conflict over the period of Scarcity (with one large spike for a war), then slow recovery in destruction after Scarcity ended, to the point where it’s now back about where it was before Scarcity ever started.
Overall change - none. Hence “not seeing more conflict”.
Facts. They’re out there. You should try looking at some sometime.