Have you noticed lately a trend to put “only” in the wrong place, even in formal journalism?

For examples:

“It only drew down just over 10% before shuttering”

—>

It drew down only [should be “merely”; sometimes “hardly” but that implies it’s the amount over that is small rather than the 10%] just over 10% before shuttering

“Pittsburgh police will only respond to calls of in-progress emergencies as part of new staffing plan”

—>

Pittsburgh police will respond to calls of in-progress emergencies only, as part of new staffing plan

or

Pittsburgh police will respond only to calls of in-progress emergencies, as part of new staffing plan [I think it still merits the comma]

“Most Libraries Will Only Be Open Five Days a Week Under Mayor Adams’s Budget”

—>

Most Libraries Will Be Open Five Days a Week Only Under Mayor Adams’s Budget

[Many prefer “Most Libraries Will Be Open Only Five Days a Week Under Mayor Adams’s Budget”, but that raises the possibility that it’s the “open” that is only; I prefer this sentence but with “merely”, although that has an inherently judgmental connotation, which may transcend the journalistic neutrality.]

“Nick Saban Says Wife Told Him Modern Players Only Care About Money”*

/.* This last one is maybe ok. It’s a long-standing idiom. On the hand, while strictly speaking it’s not an error to employ the structure “only [X[Y]]” and means [X[Y]] as the scope (instead of X), especially when there isn’t room for plausible ambiguity, I don’t know if this idiom is meant to be the exaggerated-for-effect claim that [caring about money] is the only thing they do, or that of the set of all things they care about has the sigular element “money”.

All the other ones, while easy enough to follow, seem to go out of their way to say the wrong thing and force the blip of annoyance and the extra cognitive work to fix it. It seems they don’t get any benefit in return. I don’t get it.