Nine out of ten coins I receive regularly are 2020-2022 mint.

Why did they capture all the pre covid coins?

I typically shuffle through my change to catch buffalos, eagles, or anything that would contain precious metals or value and in the 5-6 years doing it I haven't really found any old coins of value. A few silver nickels but not really worth my time.

So if the point of the capturing all change in circulation was to grab the precious metals remaining in coins, I don't think many were floating around.

Conspiracy bros, why was there a falsified change shortage?