MBAs declaring how fields they know nothing about should operate is our general model of business since the 1980s or so.

I don’t think it has worked well, but this is continuing the trend rather than a deviation.

There's a definite feeling that things are coming to a head on this one; it feels unsustainable in a way it hasn't before. People tire of the society-wide rot brought on by boundless greed whose benefits ordinary people will never reap, and whose consequences they will bear alone.