[Brightcolours]

I would not use the word fad to describe lifting the shadows in shots of extreme contrast, eg. shooting an interior with bright light shinning through windows and doors. To be able in PP to produce an image so as to not have a featureless dark interior set against a blown out outside world may be recently possible,..... but it isn't a fad..... it's here to stay...not even the most perfect exposure could achieve it straight off the bat!

Lifting shadows many stops indeed enables a lot of bad photos, that is true. And bad photos always have been made and always will be made. Point taken