[dragonwriter]

> The fact that it has been going on for decades doesn't make the point less valid. This

No, the fact it what you describe has not been going on for decades. It is an occasional response to extreme events, not a continuous mode of operation, and your criticism is all about the potential risk it has as a continuous mode of operation. There've been a couple major cases fairly recently, but that was in response to the biggest financial crisis in 70 years and the most significant acute global pandemic in over a century happening to fall a little over a decade apart, not some change in general approach.