I can't blame you for just skimming, but you've come away with a mistaken interpretation. Yes, there are a ton of v3 onions created quite suddenly but they don

I can't blame you for just skimming, but you've come away with a mistaken interpretation. Yes, there are a ton of v3 onions created quite suddenly but they don't stick around for long and aren't associated with human people. The Tor project technical blog on v3 onion services suggests most of the v3 services are "barely used" and setup to merely act as slave services for a malicious botnet. https://blog.torproject.org/v3-onion-services-usage https://blog.torproject.org/v3-onion-services-usage . Human people actually run websites (and other services) from v2 addresses and there are far more of them even now than actual human used v3 addresses if you can extrapolate anything from onion descriptor information in the hidden service directory.