It seems to me that it has. That doesn’t necessarily make a lot of sense because there’s a wrong way to swipe and a right way to swipe. Paul Gilbert swipes, yet many consider him the most technically proficient shred guitarist in the world… Michael Angelo Batio swipes at times and he has been described as “inhumanly accurate.” Who in that style of playing sounds cleaner than Batio? Then there’s the guy in Strunz and Farah who swipes often.
Before the term swiping was even coined, how often dd you hear players disparage Batio or Gilbert for sounding sloppy? Since the 80s they have both been always right at or near the top of "best shred guitarist’ lists. Those two were also arguably the two most sought after guitarists for guitar teachers and/or instructional video there were. That’s because so many people wanted to sound just like them! Yet they swipe some of their licks. They were so good at it that nobody even knew they swiped until CTC began.