Interest declined when they discovered the immigration process was non-trivial. I checked into Canada back in 2016. Didn't bother this time. I think a lobotomy might be the answer. It would be nice if I could just have my empathy surgically removed.
I looked into moving to Germany a few years back myself. Mostly because my work has a place over there and the employee benefits are way way better there than here. I think most immigration processes are nontrivial unless you have a ton of wealth to bring to a country.