AND BY THE WAY, "exponentially" describes a rate of change. X can't be "exponentially worse" than Y any more than it can be "quickly worse"
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X could be "exponentially worsening", though.
I will overlook for now the fact that "exponentially" is also not a drop-in substitute for "quickly", "rapidly", "significantly" or "much"
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I don't normally get all linguistic prescriptivismic but I need "exponentially" to describe things which are genuinely growing exponentially
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Or shrinking exponentially, for that matter
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