How does D already have 4k submissions?

How does C have 12k submissions (with 10 minutes left in the contest)?

I thought I was having a good contest, So I stayed in the zone, and didn’t check the standings.

After submitting D, I finally saw the standings — and I am shocked I am wondering about quitting CP altogether at this point.

I miss the days when solving up to C roughly meant Expert-level performance… …and solving up to D was around Candidate Master-level.

Have I genuinely become bad at programming? Or is there something else going on?