Decrease in number of green box city rewards - Update or Bug?

Yes @jimbo2766 - you earn one green box per building for every 6-hour collection, and those boxes do stack if you don’t collect them right away. For a full breakdown on how to optimize this, take a look at the Maximizing Green Prizes with L4 Monuments thread.
New buildings do produces more green prizes within the 6 hours period if you collect the coins before the 6 hours.

Newer buildings can actually produce more green prizes within that 6-hour window if you collect the coins before the full 6 hours have passed. Older buildings will always default to their base payouts - they won’t go any lower than that over time. For example, a Level 4 (T23) Monument pays a minimum of 8.5M Coins, 85 Passes, or 85 Gems - or alternatively, 100 coins plus a holiday wine or golden playing card every 6 hours.

Any buildings purchased or rewarded within the last 4 days are in the “honeymoon period” (HMP), which provides an extra reward boost before they transition to those standard base payouts.