And that 9th position was heavily impacted by Vingegaard, AWP and Pedersen's crashes and Slovenia winning all 3 GT's. Again, as danish you have no reason to complain about the state of Danish cycling at the moment.
I don't think that played a role. Pretty sure the ranking in question doesn't factor in Juniors.
But, yeah, this year only seems like a "bad" year for Danish cycling because we've been spoiled in recent years.