This was in response to a number of incidents from a small group of pilots in one particular base. Unfortunately these were all seriously unstable approaches leading from switching everything off above 10k in marginal weather.
You are suggesting the skill base of >3000 pilots has been dictated & dliuted by the numbness of a few. Sad times. The rate cause was the numbness in choosing to do so in marginal weather; if true. It does sound too simple, but I can believe an increase in unstable approaches might be motivation for the Flt Ops straight-jacket policy. It used to be more training not less. But that was then and this is now.