I once complained on HN how appearances of literally in the new sense were driving me nuts. It was explained to me that it's nowadays used as an intensifier—and

I once complained on HN how appearances of literally in the new sense were driving me nuts. It was explained to me that it's nowadays used as an intensifier—and has been for nearly 100 years, and my impression the change was recent was probably just the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon. Although unconvinced, I gave up that fight and retreated to my usual protesting that a method and a methodology are two very different things, although it seems everything is a methodology these days. Longer is better?