FIDE pumped in 70 million points this year to combat this
https://www.fide.com/docs/presentations/Sonas%20Supplemental%20Report.pdf
https://www.fide.com/docs/presentations/Sonas%20Supplemental%20Report.pdf
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We live in a time where everyone has easy access to videos from incredible players explaining how to play, so the baseline has probably gone up and the system takes a while to catch on