With the growth of the FT community and the fact that it's open to everyone I think it is an inevitable shift, if only because of the addition of members. While I haven't been around FT forever, I always remember reading "How much compensation am I entitled to?" threads, etc. I think the fact that it's so much bigger today would be among the reasons, and I really don't feel there's a shift in the core of what FT is...

Just my two cents.