The Giants growth is not linear as a result of covid.
The strategy pre-covid of building attendance through footy participation was smashed during covid and has not recovered. You can draw a circle around the part of the country that was hit hardest by covid lockdowns that has since struggled with footy attendance as it does not have the generational footy interest (read, Western Sydney). Canberra wasn't really impacted in the same way and neither was the Gold Coast/QLD.
It has required a review of this strategy with participation still in the mix but not entirely.
I think you’ve made some really fair points. I just know how tough a market western Sydney is. I would just love to see the giants play more at the SCG