Not sure which side you’re admonishing here, but I both played and coached ball, and the idea of simply wrapping someone’s legs up without subsequently then twisting/contouring myself and lunging the full weight of my body into his knees and ankles isn’t that hard to fathom nor is it that hard to coach out of the relatively few guys that like to do it.
This technique is something that only recently came en vogue (a la when people suddenly started horse-collaring in the late 90s/early 00s), it is rarely being used (.84 per game, which is a whole 60% increase from the previous year), and its legislation out of the game isn’t going to affect the quality of play to the degree many are acting like it will.
This feels like a classic case of monkey-see monkey-do unwarranted social media outrage, including by some of the players.