With the site showing over 1million available games... The fact if you refresh latest games every 5 minutes two new games come along... The addition that if I want views, I now need to focus my marketing on itch, which is the opposite of just a few years ago, where it used to provide opportunities for new players to find my game.

I'm not against all this, I think it's great, and the Jam section is great, and new devs still have a place to shine.... But it has changed, indiepocalypse comes to mind...

"Indie" is just not a tag anymore. On Itch it has no information value anyways, but browsing for indie games is just not feasible.

You need to browse for a nieche. There you have less "saturation". Two or three tags should do the trick. That can bring you down to less than 1000 games.

This here currently has 375 games

https://itch.io/games/genre-puzzle/tag-pixel-art/tag-rpgmaker