I don't know how many episodes there are to season 5 so far, but I'm sure I haven't seen them all. Unless there are, like, 6 episodes. And frankly, looking at the stories people are writing right now, it's not so different from what they wrote during the hiatus. So am I the exception, or is everyone not watching season 5 right now?

4757065 take another look, most of the stories are dependent on canon from this season. If you haven't seen all the episodes, this might explain why you feel this way.

4757065 Haven't seen all of them but most of the new stories, or new chapters from ongoing stories, I've seen have at least made reference to season 5 episodes.