Agreed that you don't see as many rocks nowadays, people tend to play a looser more aggressive style now, especially at NL. Yep played in 03-07 period, often their every weekend at the Taj poker room, playing 4 AM in the morning in
limit hold em, where I did sit through plenty of tables with rocks back then, where other every hand was a chop But of course going back to my original point, just because 5-6 players go in pre-flop, this are not necessarily bad players, they are usually solid enough where some reasonably bad variance (don't catch your flush draws) means your down for the session.
Not like playing a table of fishes where your pretty much guaranteed a 100% session win rate