And Connie Willis also has a lot of great stuff. But many of the Hugo/Nebula awards over the past decade or two don't don't wow me.

>Larry Niven said the money's in novels.

That's probably always been the case. But I'm certainly willing to believe it's become even more so. Certainly the SF I've found over the past couple of decades has mostly seemed to be less mainstream. Which doesn't make it bad. Just most seems less interesting to me personally.

> probably always been the case

Yeah was thinking that. Not sure what's changed. sci-fi authors used to get started in magazines, with limited page count, which the internet is killing/has killed. I have the impression authors now jump straight to novels (with no short-story market, what alternative?)

OTOH Andy Weir arguably got his start with The Egg https://highexistence.com/images/view/the-egg-by-andy-weir/ and Ted Chiang here got a short story optioned into a movie.

Ted Chiang has a number of good short stories. (And a collection of them.)

With a few exceptions, I've never really been into reading the SF magazines so I don't have much a first hand perspective. But I assume that, as you say, they're even less lucrative and more marginal than they used to be.