Comment by zamadatix

Not everyone is reporting and the number of users is not consistent. On the former the noisiest will always be those that experience an issue while on the latter there are more people than ever using Claude Code regularly.

Combining these things in the strongest interpretation instead of an easy to attack one and it's very reasonable to posit a critical mass has been reached where enough people will report about issues causing others to try their own investigations while the negative outliers get the most online attention.

I'm not convinced this is the story (or, at least the biggest part of it) myself but I'm not ready to declare it illogical either.