Gambling its always popular and Online Gambling its create new way for express their habits . especially these days most of many Online Gambling accept crypto as payment . people no worried again about credit card being stole or get scam broker they can gambling directly without third parties and using easier payment.
I agree with you, online gambling is more popular every year! If you check some charts you will see that each year in the last 10-15 years online gambling community is rising! Now I don't wish to make a big difference (even if there's a big difference) between online fiat and online crypto (crypto is online only) gambling, because both are gaining more and more attention!
Of course, everything "online" got a lot more popular during this pandemic! It's a boost, so we can say that pandemic is just speeding up things! For many of us, everything that has some money involved is done online! But sooner or later everyone will be online!
Many gamblers who are used to playing in physical casinos are now playing online, they cannot keep the urge, they are experimenting and since, they are familiar with some of the games on online casinos, it's easy for them to get hooked on online casinos, this is one of the reasons why online casinos becoming popular and membership growing, we now have a big boom of Cryptocurrency online casinos.
I made that move years ago... many of us!
Of course, we had a little help from crypto, crypto made everything easier for us who live in some third-world countries! Now in some way people are forced to move to online gambling, but I guess once they try they will get hooked!