"Just barely passable" is the endless customer support carousel, the nickel-and-diming of airline fees, the addition of more and more ad space and cloned-content spam to web pages, and automobiles that spy on you to sell the data to marketers.
My point - inasmuch as there was a serious one - wasn't that we shouldn't raise our standards but that the framing isn't particularly helpful in determining whether we should (while rhetorically sounding like it is).