Yes, things have changed and I've watched it happen throughout the entire 13 years I have been on CB. My viewers are in their 40's to 70's (because I am in my 40's) and they still act like fools occasionally. What I think you're not taking into account here is that during the beginning of Covid over 100,000 new models suddenly appeared across all of the sites because they thought it was going to be free money. The ones who figured out how to moan and groan and keep the tips flowing are still there and the rest fell to the wayside and stopped camming. They don't know what it was like before Covid. They don't know what it was like to work CB in 2012/2013 when there were only four pages of models and you HAD to have a personality to keep people interested.
I will say this -- not using a tip menu is a huge disservice to a model because those actions in that menu are what make the thumbnail move and what gets new viewers into the room. You could tip me 10,000 tokens and request I never do a thing for those tokens and I would be resentful that you didn't want to help me move the needle visually. To other viewers -- viewers much like yourself, it looks like I refused to do anything for it and that hurts the room. Who would tip after that? So please reconsider your stance there.