Occasionally I feel like there should be a wall of shame for the patent attorney that wrote the claims (and possibly the named Inventors by extension).
That part of the original deal around patents has been lost, then - to wit, that after the 17 years elapsed, the world would know how to implement this 'non-obvious invention'.
Could it be possible for a patent crash to happen? Maybe the way to get rid of this absurdity is to push it to the extreme, produce industrial quantities of silly patents and force the whole system to a stop, then a single match would easily burn all of it.