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.
In addition to boomers leaving, a lot of women have left because they worked (and many were laid off from) low paying jobs that can no longer offset the cost of childcare (which is soaring). I think a lot of young people have left as well because there's no way you could afford anything important with the work that is available to them. If they've got to work 50 hours a week to rent your own place and live on your own, why not just live at home where you don't have to work at all because your parents can provide for you?
Also hiring managers are the dumbest people alive. I know that's a podcast tier take, but I've been saying it for months so I feel vindicated. They literally do not know how to do their job the second it gets challenging because it's been easy to hire people on the promise of crumbs for the past twenty years and retention hasn't been an issue either. Now that's not the case and none of them actually know how to do their jobs. They didn't take on hiring people as a responsibility to do more work.