We're in an environment where people routinely discover flat out academic fraud, as in, scientists just made whole tables of data up out of thin air. Someone notices, informs the journal, and with 95% likelihood nothing happens. Or maybe the researcher is allowed to 'correct' their made up data. We're in an environment where you literally cannot take any number in a COVID-related paper at face value, even when there are multiple citations for it, because on checking citations routinely turn out to be fraudulent e.g. the cited paper doesn't actually contain the claimed data anywhere in it, or explicitly states the opposite of what's being claimed, or the number turns out to have been a hypothetical scenario but is being cited as a "widely believed" empirical fact, etc. We're in an environment where literature reviews argue that whilst very few public health models can ever be validated against reality, that's not a big deal and they should be used anyway.
Gwern criticises people who learn about logical fallacies and then go around over-criticising people for engaging in them. Yeah, sure, if you claim someone is taking bribes and they actually are then it's technically an ad hominem but still correct to say. Granted. But we are not suffering from an over-abundance of nitpicky fallacy-criticizers. Where are these people when you need them? COVID related research frequently contains or is completely built on circular logic! That's a pretty basic fallacy yet papers that engage in it manage to be written by teams of 20, sail through multiple peer reviews and appear in Nature or the BMJ. As far as I can tell the scientific institutions cannot reliably detect logical fallacies even when papers are dealing with things that should be entirely logical like data, maths, code, study design.
The notion that scientific criticism should be refined to focus on what really matters sounds completely reasonable in the abstract, and is probably an important discussion to have in some very specific fields (maybe genetics is one). But I'd worry that if people are arguing about p-hacking or lack of negative results, that means they're not arguing about the apparently legion researchers making "mistakes" that cannot plausibly be actual mistakes. Stuff that should be actually criminal needs to be fixed first, before worrying about mere low standards.