Re: There are still some people in El Reg's homeland
This has been the case for some time.
While The Register (*) had already been pandering to its growing US readership in the years prior, it's pretty clear in hindsight that the biggest change in style- and the most obvious sign that they no longer saw the UK audience as its main target- happened when they switched the main site from "theregister.co.uk" to "theregister.com" around five years ago.
Since this happened in May 2020 (**), with people distracted by Covid and routines disrupted by the first lockdown, it's likely that this was missed by many and didn't provoke the attention it might otherwise have. (Your guess is as good as mine as to whether that timing was intentional or coincidental.)
Regardless, it managed to slip through mostly unnoticed at the time, but that was a pretty clear statement of intent.
(*) Does the straighter, more US-focused and more faceless post-switch site still count as "El Reg"?
(**) Before and after.