So, what have I missed!

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Times have changed; a lot of forums have died out or moved to other platforms (YouTube, discord, Facebook groups, etc). It is just the way of the beast and the new generation. Really sad IMO, I made many great virtual friends here and I wish I could go back to when everyone was still around here. Sucks getting older tbh.

Your points are valid. In addition, there is less overclocking potential with the improvement in the predictability/binning of modern hardware. With that and 'easy overclocking' buttons you can press, the average Joe can get a descent OC without having the effort of seek the know how.
"Build it and they shall come". There's still use for forums like this. Look at overclock(DOT)net. There's still a desire for centralized sources for the harder core users who want to squeeze out the entire potential of their modern, highly binned hardware. There are motherboard threads for builds with various manufacturers and models, DDR4/DDR5 overclocking threads etc. They're doing everything xtremesystems used to do. It's hopping with a lot of activity and has become a go to for the harder core enthusiasts. This is where they've been going. If we were to post our builds and activities here (especially with unique posts found only here), there would be search hits, comments, and new registered members.