Summary: The catastrophe that the EPO became under Benoît Battistelli and his friend António Campinos isn't mentioned in the media; but every insider is aware of what's really happening
Fact #1: over time slop gets worse (training set is like some blurry JPEG). Fact #2: People's "smell" for slop improves over time, as they 'train' on slop and can detect it based on prior encounters. Put 1 and 2 together.
Richard Stallman's seminal manifesto and foundational (practical) work on GNU gave us a very solid system that facilitates productive work without concerns over spyware