This is presented as if it is a new problem. It stems back to the 1940s with the adoption of NHST (with its arbitrary "statistical significance" metric) first b

This is presented as if it is a new problem. It stems back to the 1940s with the adoption of NHST (with its arbitrary "statistical significance" metric) first by educational researchers, then by psychologists, followed by spreading like a cancer throughout the research community from there. Things have only been getting worse and worse as the "old guard" in each field retires/dies leaving behind only people trained to think rejecting a strawman hypothesis according to an arbitrary metric, then concluding something about your hypothesis, counts as science.