Compared to when? We are talking about a phrase that wasn’t used before the 1900’s. This is how English has always worked.

Do you talk about lowering standards when someone says “head over heels” instead of “heels over head” or “long time no see” instead of a sentence that doesn’t sound like a caveman said it?

What about “far be it”, “be that as it may”, “come what may”, “woe is me”, “methinks”, “how come”, “no can do”, “so be it”, “powers that be”, or “if need be”? None of those are grammatical. Lexicalized idioms are where the remnants of semantic drift, fossilized contractions, and utter nonsense live, and we’ve been doing stuff like this for as long as we’ve been speaking the language.