I believe the difference is back in 2018, busting out the TLV wasn't an issue so the company didn't care about pilots being less efficient.

But now, TLV pressure is real....the company wants some category ALV's to be higher, but they can only get them so high without running out of TLV cap in the very near future, so at this very moment, they need every pilot they do have in the category to be as efficient as possible, hence rotations with less and less credit.

They need those pilots moving widgets in the system, not sitting around getting paid not to be productive.