This past year has felt pretty upbeat, and yes, there's recency bias and all that, but we are seeing an uptick in interest and numbers, and I've got friends at other packs and troops that are doing better as well.
I think we are also seeing a lot more interest amongst the younger kids/parents - our kindergarten and 1st/2nd grade dens are larger. I think some of it probably is people who were doing outdoor stuff during COVID and looked around and saw tjat Scouting was what worked best for them. But, as I said, since we added girls and kindergartners, we have a LOT of parents who are showing an interest or signing their kids up because we are one of the few "serious" activities where the whole family can be involved, regardless of boy or girl, and the fact that we cover Kinder - 5th grade is huge for a lot of parents.
In fact, if we took girls out of our pack, we would be close to the size we were before COVID.
And there's still a lot of people who didn't realize we added girls (and kindergarten), and it's just a matter of them finding out or seeing their friends' kids in it.
There just really is no other activity that covers both boys and girls from kinder - 12th grade (once you move out of Cub Scouts) and that the parents can participate in as well.