Is this trend of oversharing code snippets and TMI postmortems done purposely to distract their customers from raging over the outage and the next impending fuckup?

Just seems like transparency. I agree that we should also judge them based on the frequency of these incidents and amwhether they provide a path to non-repeatability, but i wouldnt criticize them for the transparency per se

Well I still appreciate a good postmortem even if I have no doubt it'll happen again imminently

and if they didn’t we’d posting about lack of transparency. damned if you do, damned if you don’t