Yes.
> Much less spam accounts below every single post like how it used to be.
No, they're still there. They're even more there on popular posts.
A strange thing is that they never seem to ban the onlyfans bots, but they do hide them under "more replies" - so if you habitually expand that, you just keep seeing the same ones everywhere.
> but in this case it's a bit surprising how nothing concrete has actually changed even with 80% reduction in staffing
That's not too surprising, because what the other people were doing was changing stuff. So now they're gone, things won't change, ever.