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You misread my argument. I was telling that there are 1.5 million projects not on the index. You say that there are projects indexed immediatly. And this is so. But you cannot know how many projects are not, for the simple fact, that you do not see them.

And of course it is equal for all games. They all go through the exact same process. But you do not know what this process entails, you only see the outcome and claim that, because the outcome is not the same, the process must be different, random or whatever.

As for growth, this is in projects published per time frame.

2019 (69,857 results)

2020 (126,693 results)

2021 (165,128 results)

2022 (176,758 results)

2023 (196,977 results)

And this is only the remaining projects, that are still indexed.

From observation I can tell, that the process mentioned above does has some automatic screening with unknown parameters that flag stuff for manual inspection. Who knows, maybe it even does have random aspects like controls on an airport.