It seems so. The backlog of applicants of most types is declining - albeit slowly - even though there are more applications with end of covid.Are they processing a little bit faster now in 2022 specially with easing of covid restriction? Thanks.
The big exception I believe is for tourist visas - where the backlog has grown, as supposedly applicatoion numbers have exploded (for rather obvious reasons - during covid the message was you cannot come here for tourism.)
I'm going by a recent news article whihc I'm too lazy to look up right now.