I used to like the Winter Games until they put the X-games crap in it. My guess is that since we got hit with snowmaggedon in the East a week before the games started, people didn’t want to watch.
Very likely.
One other factor is the execrable droning of the commentators telling “life stories” of the athletes instead of covering the events themselves. Anyone can now short-circuit that BS by watching the events online.
Remember how some Monday Night Football fans used to listen to the game on the radio while watching on TV so they wouldn’t have to hear Howard Cosell? Sort of the same thing.