Not really. In the first couple of years of the Tsai administration, approval dipped to around the 30s, then slightly lower due to big reforms (labor law, pension reform), Constitutional Court rulings on marriage equality, etc. President Tsai governed like a “second‑term” president in her first term. Urgency and legitimacy deficits created a need for clarity—similar to the Ma‑era conditions. So there was no pushback to the idea of higher‑bandwidth communication with the public.