Watered down annulments been around for a long time.For years the church has not taken annulments serious. If you have the money you get one. If the party asking for the annulment just says the other party refused to go to Mass they’re granted an annulment.
I say that partly because the United States, with 6 percent of the world’s Catholics, accounts for 60 percent of the annulments.
The number of annulments granted annually in the US was something like 300 in 1968. Then a new "psychologizing" of the grounds for annulment started taking hold with the new-thinky canonists in the tribunals in US and the English-speaking countries --- plus Germany --- and was codified in the new Code of Canon Law in 1983. Reasons like "psychological immaturity" had rocketed the number of annulments to about 30,000 by the mid-'70's, surging again up to to a peak of over 60,000 a year by the early 90's.
Even in those years, the annulment rate stayed low in almost all other countries. You'd see numbers in the teens or low 20's for some places in Asia and Africa.
That's why, especially in the Anglosphere and Germany/Austria --- anywhere a law is abused --- it becomes a joke. But it's not that way always and everywhere.