I think that there is a lesson here to provide the third bot station on FT8 just to use it as a moth light. Without the FT8 outlet, the small subset of the no-code crowd that also has twisted brains have nothing to do but jam (or wait in silence, but they are just not capable).
Its either that or have a bunch of stations going to thin out the crowd and give SSB and FT8 as outlets for everyone.
Between, "I can't hear them they are too weak", or "I shouldn't have to be a big gun to work them", or "I don;t know the code", there is just too much for the crazies to aspire to.
And yes, its a HUGELY EU issue from my observation. I also see that EU is a larger percentage of FT8 users than NA....just sayin....
Could hear them at S0 - S1 on my 30M inv vee much of the night but didn;t bother calling with such small signal and simple antenna on 30M. I will get them on 15 or 20M with the "big guns".
Ed N1UR