https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1948078/c... shows the situation even better.
And, StackExchange has adjusted stale/inactive question deletion scripts as a result of this change: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/419988/we-ve-rework...
Nice. But about 10 years late. They should have seen for 2 years from 2014 to 2016 the damage done from their deletion policy.