Not surprising. Just look at the precious snowflakes getting advanced degrees in one of the fill-in-the-blank studies categories. They're all desperately sniffing around, looking for some previously unrevealed trace of oppression, discrimination, marginalization, perceived slight, you-name-it, so they have something mildly unique to base their thesis on. The longer you're in higher ed, the more pressure to develop unique research. Even if you have to make it up.
“In 1987 a psychologist called David Halpern did a survey of students rating buildings by attractiveness and while almost everyone had similar tastes, uniquely the architecture students rated everyone else’s favourite as their least favourite and vice versa. Curiously the longer someone had been studying architecture the more contrarian their tastes.”
This explains so many things today such as music, furniture, art. Everybody wants to be a totally unique and a celebrity. Look at me.