Sorry, I guess I should have expounded a bit more - I think the example was chosen because of both cultural relevance [0] and because it is something that is a "core" element - I didn't necessarily mean to comment on whether it was an accurate representation of the state of things.

I would tend to agree that one "industry's" quality and policy related failings are not a sign of wider economic failure, although I think another commenter had it right with "covid hangover." There's a lingering supply/demand mismatch in seemingly all consumer markets that seems in large part due to problems that were started or brought to a head during covid.