I can't speak for anyone else, but my purchases have definitely tapered off to a trickle. Like a lot of pipers, I looked at social and legislative trends and decided to stock up.
Since I'm new to the hobby, 2019, unless you count that couple years in the 80's I smoked a pipe to stay awake in the patrol car between 0300 and 0500 midnight shift I'm definitely buying more. All of you with nice cellars of bygone brands and YouTube videos discussing the lost blends have had a "marketing" impact on me for sure. I'm stupidly concerned about what I missed out on and realistically concerned about blends skyrocketing in the future, or their accelerated disappearance in/before 2021. With this pandemic respiratory virus, Tobacco has become a smaller concern, but since this topic is about pipe blend purchases I'm continuing to purchase more to cellar, probably at least 25X what I smoke.
I'd love to buy more, but it seems that everything is out of stock, nothing is on sale, and I really don't want to bring packages into the house right now.