Therefore, if everyone is burning out, no one is really burning out or, we somehow extended the definition of burnout to something that can be applied to even the most minute set of complaints.
Being burnt out doesn't need a frame of reference other than the internal one of the "burnee". So it can be valid under any conditions.
Energy levels are like a rubber band. You can stretch it. But when you are burned out you are at the end of the stretch and even destroying the band so it won't jump back immediately.
"If everything is urgent, nothing is urgent" is about bad management. The inability to prioritize.
Our industry is full of over time and late hours. Full of pressure because of time constraints. And all that focused on only on small part of our body.
No wonder that so many get hurt.