Trimmed inflation is a better measure than non-trimmed for goods with substitutes. Bacon going up 1000% in price is not as bad as all food going up 5% in price because you can just stop eating bacon, but you can't just stop eating.
More seriously, that quality of life decrease is now completely ignored. I think it's worth acknowledging that it's happening.
And at the end of the day, it’s more important to be happy
- a popular quote in the internet
you can't watch people switch their crab and milk for krab and powdered milk then be like "oh we'll just trim that out of inflation lmao". inflation is not supposed to measure change in average cost of necessities, it's supposed to measure change in a basket of basic goods.
A TV today is not the same as a TV in 1970.
The groceries a family buys today are not the same Goods or quality as someone would have bought in 1920
You can starve.