It's always been bad, especially defensive pass interference and defensive holding calls, which are so subjective. Some games are penalty filled and others have relatively few. During some games interference is called when a receiver is barely touched, others it isn't even if receivers are manhandled. There was a good example of the latter last night, I believe it was St. Brown who was hit hard and had no chance to make a catch because of it but nothing was called.
If the league and the TV networks that enable and support it are going to have prolonged talmudic delays parsing every catch to make sure the ball never bounced or that the receiver made a "football move" after the catch or that he had two feet in bounds, then they might as well be consistent and have reviews of penalty calls. Even the NHL, which is also plagued by very subjective penalty calling, now sees refs huddle after calls and sometimes change them after the fact. The NFL is doing a bit of that now too, you used to never hear "there was no penalty on the play" after one was called, but there's a long way to go. But if games are tweaked for gambling or other interests, then nothing will change.
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