i think the overlooked aspect to NBA's tanking 'issue' is that a good amount of teams that end up throwing their season away do likewise because of injuries
there's no way Pacers end up taking the 25-26 season if Haliburton is healthy; Grizzlies ended up trotting out lineups full of rookies and g leaguers because a bunch of their key players were always injured and they simply couldn't compete
the current workload is too much for the players but this will never get addressed, instead we'll get gimmicky 'solutions' that inject even more variance into roster building