It has definitely been overused by too many authors. This reminds me a passage of Orwell's essay "Politics and the English Language":

> A newly−invented metaphor assists thought by evoking a visual image, while on the other hand a metaphor which is technically "dead" (e.g., iron resolution) has in effect reverted to being an ordinary word and can generally be used without loss of vividness. But in between these two classes there is a huge dump of worn−out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves

By that argument you must also hate anything that mentions the term "considered harmful", or makes any form of derivative cultural reference (like just about every episode of the Simpsons). Why do you let it get to you?

Because attention and time are a quantity that only decreases with life.

Then why waste your time with getting upset about people making tired cultural references? It's a chuckle at best and a meh at worst, getting bothered by it is a waste of effort.