Getting tons of recruiter messages lately, what's going on?

Samenvatting

I'm a Senior Data Engineer with about 4 YOE. Typically I'll get about 1 recruiter message on LinkedIn per week, sometimes fewer. Yet for some reason this week specifically, I've been getting messaged DAILY by recruiters hiring for DE roles. I think I've had 10 messages in the past week. (And these are legitimate roles coming from real recruiters) What the hell is going on? Is this like peak hiring season or something? Genuinely never had this much interest on my LinkedIn profile ever. I was p...