The choice is high inflation or a recessionary economy. Smooth landings are luck.
The FED’s job is to choose, they did. Now the FED and the rest of us get to hope we don’t get one from column A and one from column B.
Or both simultaneously, which is what we have. Keep in mind that economics is NOT a science, and some of the worst decision making and predictions comes from economists. The pure mathematicians I know think economists are amusingly pathetic.