Summary: This keeps happening (the majority of "KNOWN EXPLOITED VULNERABILITIES" just announced by CISA is Microsoft Windows). Will Bill Gates-funded media cover it? If so, how will that be covered? Microsoft knew about these flaws (and told the spy/state partners so they can exploit these). Microsoft did not patch until it was too late and these holes were actively exploited a lot (at least 4 such holes, based on CISA).
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