I suspect so, and just a general blowback effect where if what people perceived to be the message is even slightly more dramatic than the reality then there's tendency for many to overshoot reality in the other direction.
https://calif.io/php2shell/#patch-the-planet
I mean what is the world coming to when security researchers cannot release a writeup that is designed to look like slop, and starts with a bunch of cartoons with lame cyberpunk and matrix references, without being ridiculed for taking the piss ...