Do a lot people still need VP6? Almost 85,000 QSOs were made by VP6R a few years ago. Regardless, hope he has fun operating from there.
That interesting... VP6R was in Oct 2019, and VP6T was in Jan-Feb 2012. Yet VP6T made only 56,300 QSOs. And look how each was situated in Cycle 24. VP6T was between the two peaks, and the cycle was near bottom out when VP6R was on the air. The red markers may be off a bit, but close enough to show the difference.

Each operation used the Leader Board function. I pigged out with 17 slots for VP6T, and didn't make it in the top 100. The top players got 21 slots.

Didn't call when VP6R was on. I had already stopped playing the Piggy Board game. But the ones who did play did much better than anyone pigging out with VP6T. A lot of statesiders got 27 slots this time.
Two points...
(1) Propagation can be strange at times.
(2) As a reformed piggy, I can say there's hope for the piggies out there.