Question about DiDi drivers asking for extra.

Long time observer, first time poster here. Over my 7-8 years in China I’ve taken literally 1000s of DiDis with more or less no problems or disputes whatsoever.

However this spring festival I went back to my home country and then since I’ve been back I’ve had 3 DiDi drivers in a row either A ask for extra money after the trip or B, before setting off, asked me to cancel the trip and pay them directly before continuing on the journey.

These trips are within 20-30km journeys to and from where I live in a reasonably well off town to Ningbo city centre - ish. They all claim that the platform has increased their share they take from drivers and that they have to make it up from passengers?

This has never happened before and now has happened three times in a row which is annoying cos the great thing about DiDi obviously was the “fire and forget” convenience of plugging in an address and then getting the car and arriving to a destination without any problems. Now it’s turned into a big hassle of having to second guess whether or not I’m gonna get shaken down for more money or not.

So, anyone else had any experience similar to this recently?