Reply To: Traffic dropped after fixing technical SEO?

Yeah, happens. Usually it’s not “Google hates fixes,” it’s the site getting re-crawled/reprocessed after you changed enough stuff to matter. I’d only start worrying if the dip sticks around past a couple crawl cycles or you changed something dumb like canonicals/noindex/internal links and didn’t notice. Otherwise it’s pretty normal annoying noise. Just my experience.