Low balance increases with normal HR

Would like a solution but I don't expect anything at all.  Over the last month the balance increases of ETH are sub-par, for my rig (RTX 3060 12 GB) and even much worse many times even though my HR is always normal (low 20s) for me anytime I look at it.  I remember people calling this out a while back but I can confirm, the mining here has gone down hill lately.  I ran it for about 9 hrs today, got an hourly rate of about 75% of my par prior to December.  There has been times in Dec that my rate has be 50% of par or less. Maybe because of fewer miners during the holidays?  I admit, I don't mine that much lately but...its because I don't get much bang for my buck anymore!  Love to hear an explanation on this, no mining for a while I do believe.

ETH2 Big  ??? for sure.  POS you need 32 tokens to play right now as structures. 

Interesting to know. Be even more interesting to know how things shake out when ETH2 fully kicks in.

One large mining farm started last month with a large hash rate  ! Was making around 20,000 dollars every 3 hours . More mining going on with less profit . About 50 miles from my home a large solar mining farm is under construction !  Not mining yet still putting solar panels up. When this one starts mining it will take a large chunk of what crypto its mining.