Crowds and Traffic

Anyone else notice how crowded everything has become since 2020.

I honestly remember a 10 min errand being a 10 min errand and not a 25 min errand. Weekday nights had no crowds, and I could grocery shop in the middle of the day without traffic and crowds. Are people just out of work? The population could not have grown that much. I have been driving home at 1am and there is traffic and sometimes lines at the gas station. Something feels very off.