Depending on where you live it is very common. In chicago when they installed the cameras they lowered the yellow duration to like half a second so people were constantly running them for a while. Then running yellows became normalized, and just ignoring lights from bikers which drivers noticed, and now when traffic is low its not uncommon to see people just treat lights as stop signs if they think no one is coming.
Yep, the states acted like aunts to get more money and have made the whole system more unsafe for everyone.
Anyone involved in those yellow light lowering schemes should have been criminally charged.