@WhoGal: "Creeping Incrementalism" is the term, I believe. It's really just slow erosion of standards via casual, though sometimes willful disregard of standards. That's my take on it anyway.
"We do such a good job that we can let this little thing slide. No problem."
"Well, we let that go last time, and nobody noticed or cared. Must not be that important. Don't worry about it from here on out. One less thing, right?"
"Since we're not bothering what they, we can drop that and that, too."
And so on and so on, until...
"I don't know what happened, folks. How did we get here? I bet the people that don't like us did this!"
@thedisasterautist that’s truly shocking.