Give it another 36 hours before declaring a bigly drop again.
24 hous later...

Latest Block: 689632 (12 minutes ago)
Current Pace: 86.8345% (161 / 185.41 expected, 24.41 behind)
Comparing to what Phil had posted is a slight tick upwards from 84.6659% to 86.8345%.
That said, I don't think that the numbers would be that low either, who might be still shutting down, I would understand if it weren't just past the end of the month, so you could assume some people have got extra permission to mine till the full month is over before dismantling and packing but that's not the case. And gear is being shipped, bitmain might have stopped normal customer deliveries but they are forced by contracts like the ones with Mara and Riot to send miners out, there is gear relocating around the world, I doubt we will even see a drop by the end of this period. Not with
BTC prices finally going up a bit!
But still, I've been wrong so many times I wouldn't be amazed to see this epoch ending with another 10% down, predicting this stuff is out of my league it seems, at least if I get this wrong I get some extra $ so it's not as painful as before to completely miss stuff
And one more thing, we might have another player or a lot of individual mining farms getting blocks,
Btc.com shows spike to 10% of unknown blocks in the last 3 days compared to 3% over the last 3 months.