I think it's too easy to say that overuse of antibiotics is what brought us here. In the article it says that companies stopped developing new antibiotics when

I think it's too easy to say that overuse of antibiotics is what brought us here. In the article it says that companies stopped developing new antibiotics when development costs became too high to justify given the narrow market. Now, if doctors were to use antibiotics only for very serious infections, a last resort method, then pharmaceutical companies wouldn't have had the incentive to develop even the drugs that we now take for granted, because the market would have been so incredibly small to not give them enough reason to invest in development. I think we would've ended up in this very same position anyway, it was just a matter of time.