Sunspots are currently plentiful, although relatively well below average over this and the previous 11 year Solar Cycle.
Whether or not that really will translate into another brutal Winter is debatable, but when the sunspots do disappear for multiple cycles, I will agree that we are in for some harsh winters.
Even the peaks we've had have been minimal. There were several years in the early 'aughts' when there were few or NO sunspots; the sun was a bare as a baby's bum! NASA, in line with their push for 'Global Warming' kept predicting that the new cycle would be extremely active, but for several years, had to push their predictions out for the next year, because that cycle change just didn't happen. And when it DID happen, it was short, and again, with very FEW sunspots.