In short the reason for the much fewer posts this year is the following:
I went from getting 1000+ clicks - and many more impressions - to around 0. I still get around 50 clicks from Bing and other search engines per day, but for Google it went to basically 0 after the helpful content update. I tried cleaning up old posts, but nothing really seemed to work! Right now I am waiting for more favorable search engine algorithm conditions as what I write will likely not be found under the current conditions! :)
I hope 2025 will be the year where I continue my blog. Happy holidays and Happy new year!
-Peter