You hear a lot of that on these forums also things like X has ruined the balance of pvp and guild wars or Y has ruined the game.
Here’s actual math (steam only)
So zero interpretation is needed. 
But personally I don’t compare summer, fall and winter months since of course more games are played during winter months than warm weather months.
I compare this month to last year. Or since February isn’t completed.
January 2022 from January 2021.
It used to be super easy to find the numbers for Android but I’m having issues finding those numbers to compare year to year rather than 6 months.
“The active players graph shows the number of users that launched a game in the past two weeks at a given point in time. So if a player plays on June 10th, that player will count as an active player on the graph until June 24th. Uses Insight data (n=~500000).” from the website (if you click on the info icon) 
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@Jeto I take it that Hawthorn has gone missing 
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