The term "grade inflation" includes an underlying presumption that GPAs are fungible and as a gentle reminder: they are not. You can't directly compare the GPA

The term "grade inflation" includes an underlying presumption that GPAs are fungible and as a gentle reminder: they are not. You can't directly compare the GPAs between schools or between course loads. Like so many other metrics in our lives, just because you can get a numerical output doesn't mean the metric is universally applicable or "objectively quantifiable" or "objectively comparable".