Could be argued they were going downhill before but it's a much faster decline since 2023-ish
Somebody posted that GitHub status summary: in ten years, they averaged 10 incidents per month — this includes the last 12 months. In the last six months, average is 22.
Google.
It was going downhill way before AI.
That's true, but also doesn't prevent the accelerated decay that it seems to be undergoing since AI hit the scene en masse a few years ago.