This was my situation as well, for my last two submissions. Both instances Epic said they caught up to after it was submitted, but my links were never clicked on. I doubt it has anything to do with the number of applicants. I just don’t think they’re honestly looking at them all. And that’s fine, it’s their money to give and none of us are entitled to it. But for those of us with ways to verify whether our projects were clicked on/downloaded/viewed there have been many cases where people have said it never occurred despite the claim they were caught up to or beyond that period. I personally just gave up on submitting anymore.