this could only happen at the ABf'nC, page-23

Whether we like it or not, we still have animal instincts and instinctively we know a lame animal in a herd. Some have trained themselves to ignore, deny, pity or bolster the weak and vulnerable, but deep down they know when the sum of the parts falls short of whole.

The ABC for decades has incipiently slipped into lame and thus why it now opts to be a horse of a different colour and, as consequence, slowly drowning it its own chaos and internal strifes. Fast running out of lipstick.