NIW Bar Increases?

Last year, so called the grand year of NIW, a lot of ppl who are under qualified still got approved. If you are dare to apply, you will have a really high approval rate.
But with the coming back of Trump, it seems like the bar has increased, a lot of my friends got denied even if they are over qualified. For instance, of of them graduated with MSCS from a top 30 uni, working in Amazon with good salary, pro member of some Associations…and he got an RFE, and he feels really depressed with the result and really afraid of being denied in the future.

Anyone has similar cases? Does the NIW bar increase? How do you think?

I think it’s industry related, in the cs field if he works for a company like amazon he’s more often considered to should apply for eb2 through his employer rather than applying for niw on his own.