Not just in Pattaya (i live in Bkk, for 13 years now. It is day and night compared to 2012). The world and definitly Thailand has changed quite a bit in the past 10 years, COVID accelerated the whole movement. General prices have gone up - people/tourists coming in are definitly more broke - quality has gone down (reference to the old fugglies and younger ones who ask crazy prices, though the latter are increasingly skipping the aging bar-scene and moving online where they make waaay more dough..), and that is a bad mix. The "good fun" is kind of gone in more than one way. Times are changing and moving forward, it won't get back to what it was, nothing really does.