I barely notice a bump these days, there are the normal fluctuations from day to day but overall traffic keeps on going up. I barely notice updates, normally I find out about them from reading about it on forums.
I think the user experience apologists are the ones who can't adapt to the blackhat of 2012. There's still plenty of life in the blackhat horse yet, without resorting to the tedium and slow growth of building real sites.
