Recent Sorcery Playerbase Growth

I have just recently jumped into Sorcery and will be learning how to play this weekend with two of my friends who also do not play.

I have been scouring the subreddit, discord servers, YouTube channels, and anything else I can to get a feel for the game and I have noticed that there are a TON of people, like me, who are discovering Sorcery and deciding to make the jump.

With the game being out a few years now, my question for the people who have been around for a while, is this the biggest upswing in people picking up the game in its existence?

Were there other points in the game’s existence that saw a large flow of people picking up the game?

Finally, do the people who pick up the game normally stick with it?