I hate to be the one to say it, but it seems possible that some of our hashpower may be going to that other pool now that they are getting closer in size and getting more frequent blocks than before...
That will die down once Halong is done burning in their machines.
Well, hopefully in the meantime, Kano can get ASICBoost enabled and 'even the playing field' a little bit.
That should create some excitement too considering how many people ask about it and how few pools they work on so far (at least from my understanding).
And the "other other" pool is over 4.216 Eh/s That is also where people are going to...to get that multiple blocks per day and no reward for it.