Got/Gotten.

[Moier]

Why are we all of a sudden using gotten instead of got?
( well l don't) but I've seen it posted at least 7 times today.
In the United States and Canada, gotten is the preferred past participle form of the verb get. Got exists in all varieties as the simple past form. However, outside of North America, got is the preferred past participle of get.

Got is used much more widely than that.
I also like gotten. It never died out where I live.

Why do people care about this!???

No word is an abomination outside of racial slurs and the like.

There may be nicer alternatives to get/got/gotten in formal communications but most communication isn't formal.