You can’t have just noticed this.
It has been going on for a long time. It is nothing more or less than Pavlovian conditioning.
And it works!
Yes, its been going on for while. But this scenario was a first, at least for me. I stopped watching Station 19 because of the same shyt. But I started recording it again because the TV season is coming to and end. Thought I’d try and watch it again and see if the plots are a bit more mainstream.