but the easy money didn't persist that entire time. Maybe 20 in total, max. more like 10 most places.

point is, most people funded by gofai money weren't doing agi. they were building pls, dbs, networks, etc.

That wasn't my experience - few people were really doing AGI (though some were, even up to the early 90s) but most effort in any area that was explicitly identified as AI was generally in applications (e.g. fault diagnosis and qualitative modelling - the areas I worked in).