The International Skating Union changed the figure skating scoring system after the 2002 Olympics scandal. The goal was to make the system more transparent and objective. Instead of a couple of 6.0 values, each element in a program would get a score based on difficulty and quality of execution.
The end result is that things that are essentially easily measured (like the number of revolutions in a jump) went up in value, while many feel like the overall quality and artistry of skating has suffered greatly. I'm not going to argue about how the "artistry" has suffered, even though I agree; artistry is subjective, and it is supposed to be a sport, after all. What I think is tragic about the scoring system, though, especially in women's figure skating, is that it is greatly biased towards girls, not women. The top "women" skaters these days are a trio of 16 year olds from Russia who excel at some of the quadruple jumps that were rare even among the men just a decade or so ago.
The issue is that it's nearly impossible for a fully developed woman (i.e. with breasts and hips) to do quadruple jumps - the physics just make it extremely difficult. So, sadly in my opinion, it has turned ladies figure skating into girls figure skating. Gone are the old days where you could follow a skater and see her improve and mature over multiple Olympics - now it's basically become a sport of mastering the difficult jumps and quads as quickly as possible until physical development eventually takes over.
I see more of this in society in general now, where with so much data and analytics there is a rush to "measure" everything. But I think it's important to acknowledge what is lost when "subjective" becomes a dirty word.