As someone who actually does this for living (I'm re-recording sound mixer), you're not wrong...per se. It is not as bad for theatrical movies, but it is somewhat present in TV shows.
Actors do mumble a lot more than they used to, which combined with the lot of TV directors/producers having delusion they're making theatrical release (which they're not) instead of something that's intended for TV (which has neither dynamic nor frequency response of theater), leads to exactly what you're complaining about. Add to that HDTV standards, that are way, way more tolerant to loudness dynamic range than SD standards of the past were and you have exactly what you're describing.
That said, as someone who both mixes and watches a lot of scripted shows, while I occasionally do tend to run across some that are not well done, I must say that I don't have a problem with intelligibility of dialogue, but I mostly watch shows that are on major streaming services, and they are (mostly) free of such problems.
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