We will never know. We don't know the 2023 number and will not know the 2024 numbers.

Additional part of the sense if too many is the service levels provided by UA, UA controls the upgrade space, the size and quality of the support staff. There could be more 1K but if support levels were increase (not likely) it may seem like things had improved.

The requirements for 2024 had increase but so had the fares and that does not seem to have been a barrier for many.

But the population of FT and some of the other internet groups are fairly unique and not very representative of the real world.