One of the common misdirections propagated by these articles is arguing that inflation dropped from 10% to 4%, so things must be better, why aren't people happy about that?

but wait that 4% is on top of the 10%,

the thing that matters is whether the income went up 10% before hitting the 4% inflation, only then would the 4% be a positive number.

the inflation does indeed slow when people run out of money, but that's not going to make put them in good mood