Sidebar question:
Does anyone remember any cases when Anal happened on PH? Apart from one plant doing dp in 2004 and a plant doing what looked like double vaginal in Vol 16, it doesn't seem like it ever did.
Musing:
I think it's also a sad fact that the drop in quality in the PH movies in recent years is correlated with the collapse in the porn industry in general. Dancing Bear also seems to have quietly shut down production entirely this past year.
The plants presumably have to be paid on a per sex act basis, as do the "amateurs" who join in, and that has to come out of the revenue generated by the video. You also have to pay the strippers, the cameramen, the rental for the space, the alcohol, the editing and so on. So if the revenues don't meet the cost of production, you have to economize on the cost of production. That means fewer plants who do fewer sex acts and smaller bounties for the spontaneous sex acts, which means fewer of them, and fewer cameras and cameramen, who do a worse job of filming the action.
If the cost of production in Prague is limiting the profitability of the Female crowd + Male Stripper genre so that it's causing a death spiral in subscriptions and ad revenues for PH, the cost in Miami for DB must have been absolutely ruinous. DB was also in a downward spiral for some time, with more than one woman engaging in copulation becoming a rarity by 2014 and most updates being oral only in 2015. And that's even accounting for the fact that DB was always smaller scale than PH.
And why would we pay for the new stuff if the older stuff is better quality and still extant, and in many cases the copyright on it is abandoned or unenforceable?
We may have a really weird situation analogous to the popular music industry with porn: our children and grandchildren are going to be in the position of wanking to porn made for their parents and grandparents from the late 90s to early teens, because there isn't any money to be made making porn for them. (Or maybe Internet porn will become MP3s basically are now: Advertising for "live performances".)