Which grade standards in 2020?

In most sports where you can set new standards, we see stagnation. This was also the case in climbing until 2015. For some reason, during the last years, we have since seen progress when it comes to achieved grades. In fact, 9a for male is not cutting edge any more and we do not report all. The only category where we do not see strong progress is onsight. Ondra is still extremely superior. The picture is drawn on free hand in order to show the trends, including further speculations showing 9b will be, for the Top-10, will be the new standard, in comparison to 9a+ in 2015.