Cannibal-fire-eaters, now almost everywhere in maps ? Is this new ?

Did GGG put those cannibal-fire-eaters in a lot more different maps now, then they were before ? Got just onshot from a group with multiple-projectile mod, while I was looking aroung a corner. And I definetely did not expected them on this map.

Is this a dirty tricks GGG-game-move or did I miss something?

I thought, the map-pool, where they could/would span is very limited and fix. Has this map-pool expanded, is it random now, or did I miss something.

kind regards

In addition to natural inhabitants, every non-unique map also contains monster types from other tilesets, chosen at random. It's been always the case, there were no related changes in 3.25.

You likely don't come across them that often - it's a kind of cognitive bias. When they suddenly kill you, your mememory highlight them among other mosnters.