> A slow-moving train wreck is still a train wreck.

It's. Not. A. Train. Wreck.

There is a high signal NOW, due (very obviously) to a well-understood and well-characterized effect visible up and down social metrics in all societies where they have been measured.

What I'm saying is that pretending to ignore this very obvious hypothesis in order to push a personal theory about "grade inflation" or whatever and demanding the rest of us freak out about the implied "train wreck" is just bad logic.

Usually that kind of argument is the result of ideological bent, not considered thought.