As a gay dude who's been watching drag for a long time, what's happened to drag since RPDR (last 8 years or so) is astounding. Drag was just a fun thing to see now and then while out drinking with the boys or on a date or when you had a friend come to the city for a visit and a night on the town. It was goofy, dirty fun that no one took seriously. Just good for laughs. No one, not even the small number of guys who were serious about it and followed performers etc., and certainly not the queens themselves, thought it was fucking art. It's gay-themed standup comedy with some crowd work, lipsyncing, dresses, and choreography. No big deal.
RP's Drag Race made it popular with normies (and absolute chucklefuck nerds like Tony), massively increasing the amount of gigs and drag queens in the mix. Suddenly drag is not just dick jokes and Streisand numbers on a Saturday night in a big city bar, with the occasional Sunday brunch, but nightly events at every gay bar and increasingly, straight bars, in many large cities.
And then, the final frontier, it became children's entertainment, leading us to the sad spectacle--travesty, really--of drag queens reading alt fairy tales to children. The librarians/events people should have known better; drag is adult entertainment, down to its DNA. The performers should have known better, but there's money to be made and they just took the gigs. And God knows, the parents taking their children to these events should have known better.
Drag won't be interesting again for a while, if ever. It's another thing that Hollywood and woke people ruined. A final thing: Drag queens were rarely trans. DQs have always been gay guys who dress as caricatures for a few hours a week and live as men the rest of the time. AGPs claiming it as theirs is a lie and unseemly appropriation.