omg same
what I've been told by a senior marker (i think she was otherwise she was just a hsc marker) I used to see is that the topics they love testing are external stability and environmental cuz they're the easiest to differentiate people (mainly because you need to be up to date). she said anyone can write a good u/e essay but not everyone can do a good essay for those topics. but the thing is environmental has been tested 4 years in a row and external stability 2 years in a row so idk
otherwise ye u/e would be decent with everything happening at the moment