Given there's an influx of conspiracy to the thread, perhaps it's important to remind that Apophenia is a thing (the ability to perceive patterns or meaningful connections in random or unrelated data). If you think something isn't right, start recording data for it - will give you a more level-headed approach, and possibly something that can be validated by a third party (such as the CM community).
If casino's impose a change, place a phat warning. A dialog since you last visit "The $variable has changed from X to Y" - Then at least we know what we're up against. Casino's and providers are becoming more and more greedy, because they have established themself at this point. Who in their right mind would go out to a landbased now while it's ease of access to online casino's.
Absolutely, and something the UKGC (and other regulators) have dropped the ball on - a casino such as WH sending out an email (as discussed in similar threads), full of broken links, talking about changes to the game without actually mentioning what those changes are, is nigh on useless... and the operators obviously know this given their internal references (which sometimes leak out to URLs) include text like "RTP changes".
I did like that some providers started to surface summary stats in their game help / loading screens - but sadly isn't gaining traction... it really needs the regulators to be pushing that one forward.
The bigger issue for a lot of casual players is they don't understand the shift in playstyles:
* 10 years ago you could play a 96% game, that bonuses every 150-200 spins with a 30-50x bonus average, that you'd have a modest shot at a 300-500x win, and an outside chance at a monster hit (1000x+), but similarly you'd feel pretty hard done by to lose 30% across 250 spins
* Today, there are plenty of 90-94% games, that bonus every 300-600 spins with a 100-200x bonus average (that staggeringly can still pay zero or 1x), where the base game makes paint drying look exciting, and you could easily go 100, 200 or 300 spins without a single 10x win (and in some extreme cases, a 5x win).
So not only are the house winning faster, but players on the wrong end of the ultra high variance curve are going to take an absolute beating because they think about the former but play the latter - plenty of more sensible variance slots out there, still a few casinos offering full-fat RTPs but sadly diminishing quickly...
Would people call that entertainment, or would they call it addiction? It's a close call...