I think this is good to read. the media likes to blow things out of proportion for spectacular reasons. they want eyeballs, and they'll pretend there is a mass quitting movement if it gets clicks. they see the rise of r/antiwork and want in on those eyeballs.
To be honest I think it is. Theres a general shortage of food service workers but that is only slightly worse than pre-pandemic, that shortage has been general for years now. My roommate who is a middle manager for a national commercial goods distributor is experiencing unprecedented staff turnover and absenteeism right now but her department is basically a call center, where frequent staff turnover has always been common.
A lot of these articles and op eds about shortages and turnovers are clear political hatchet jobs pitched to the press by local or national business lobbying groups, with the obvious goal of pushing for a government crackdown on labor discipline and wage suppression. I think they're deliberately hyperbolic for this reason. The severity of these shortages are certainly variable by region.