Objectively was used on purpose.
The NBA game has always had certain characteristics. The NBA's war on big men, physical play, etc. has been eroding those characteristics, to such a degree that I could already, today, start a new league and have it look more like any NBA before 2000 or so more than the current one does.
But let this go on to the point, which btw the unending march of the numbers suggest it eventually will, when 3pt shooting reigns completely supreme, and everything else is just what you do when you get unlucky and can't get a three, and then that has nothing to do with the NBA game at all. Just slapping an old logo, of a player who wouldn't recognize that game either, on the product doesn't make it the same game.
There used to be a good set of NBA owners at the core who saw themselves as stewards of the game to a degree. I get the feeling the money has chased that sort of idealism away, and now the new guys would seriously consider neon lines with giant blinking x3!!! signs if it would earn them a few extra bucks. Just a soulless money making endeavor. The next few years will be telling. Until this recent explosion it had looked like 3pt shooting had finally stabilized at about 20-22% of all shots, that was historically heavy, but something you could work with. D'Antoni's Suns against Pop's Spurs, see who wins. But thing have gotten very out of hand very quickly. As mentioned, at current rates in 3 years threes will be 1/3 of all shots as the area under the arc rapidly becomes a ghost town.