I'm not hammering on anything, because pattern_is_full just nailed it.
But let it also be recalled that media and related platforms became somewhat fixated on U.S. commercial aviation as a result of the widely publicized problems Southwest experienced when its system became quite dis-synchronized (a/k/a "meltdown"), and then within a short time later the ground-stop was ordered when the NOTAMs system broke down.
It was as if some giant-size Hollywood director of the NAS had said, "Lights! Camera! Action!" and the Incident gods obliged.