Yeah, although I only have my limited knowledge of the ROM Hacking section from back then.
Everything has been changed around in that section, and more and more noobs are putting out better hacks and actually daring to do a lot of things that no noob tried before (like scripting, ASM hacking, etc.
Before: "hou dew i dew teh rawm haxx?"
After: "Can someone teach me how to ASM?"
It's improved a lot, as you can see.