No.
those of us in our 50’s were still having children 10-20 years ago. My youngest is 15. Breastfeeding was very much pushed as “best”.
it’s mostly cultural and lack of understanding. It started longer ago than you think. My mum’s generation having babies in the early 70’s were told formula was scientifically superior, cleaner, more hygenic, you could monitor and control how much the baby had. No doubt pushed by heavy marketing.
as a result we lost our cultural experience of breastfeeding. Most people only have experience of formula- breastfeeding is a different beast and much more organic, feeding on demand, cluster feeding, frequent feeding. Bottle feeders see this and think there’s something wrong, that the baby isn’t getting enough, or is “starving”.
then there’s the whole attitude around people wanting to “help” by feeding the baby. Then getting pissed off when they aren’t “allowed”. Whinging that if you’re tired you should let others bottle feed to give you a break etc.
i also think the push for people to breastfeed over the last 20 years or so has been detrimental. No one feels able to just say “I didn’t want to” without being judged. So you get long tales about how the baby wouldn’t sleep through, cluster fed, or other normal behaviour meaning there was not enough milk. New mums listen, realise their baby is the same, and think it means they’re starving their baby too.
most people in this country give up bf by 6 weeks. I’d say a lot give up because the generational knowledge is no longer there. I still hear people talking about rusks and weetabix in bottles because their mum or aunt has told them it will help with sleeping or frequent feeding or some such. even HCP’s go to is formula top ups for any issue, or complicated regimes of expressing and feeding, when the best way to increase supply is to just feed more.
i always say if you want to bf do. Feed, feed, and feed and much as possible. Expressing is a pita so avoid if you can. If it’s too hard, or you don’t like it, or you just don’t want to, then have no shame in switching to bottles. The more complicated you make it the harder it is and the less chance it will work.