When any trend, business, candidate, politician, etc. starts slipping, there is a tendency to pile on quickly. Not just “kicking when down”, but to unload so much other baggage quickly so it becomes just an undifferentiated “painful period” with no one (well perhaps one Judas goat, or actually Judas here) to blame, or to be held accountable for any individual business action. “Wow, that was a crazy time, we were all so silly. Let’s move on quickly.”