if you s/counterculture/maker/g , so less about anti and more about doing, i'm with the others -- it's just bigger, with some individual subcommunities having ossified while new topics have opened their own new shiny & vibrant communities

ex: ai village was a new weird thing just a small number years ago, but now that ai is the #1 topic at blackhat (commercial side), it even has its own big event that overshadows blackhat proper . imo that's a success story for defcon fostering doers.