Yes, rapid fire drive-by-deletion is out of control.
Just because rapid-fire nonsense substub creation is out of control.
Like [[Geno's_Steaks]]? Was that a substub? It was marked with {{deletebecause|it lacks encyclopedic content}}, speedy deleted, listed on VfU, undeleted, and received a unanimous vote to keep on VfD. Speedy deletion has gotten completely out of hand.
Yes, our deletion system needs to be fixed, and I think the number of people who agree with me that VfD is broken is rising, but letting admins unilaterally decide what gets deleted is not the solution.