The mitzvah of yishuv ha’aretz is very optional today.
Depends on who you ask.
Anyone can be frum in EY, where Shabbos is enforced by law and kosher food is all you can find everywhere.
I don’t understand. You feel this is bad thing?
I have met a lot of unhappy Western olim, often with children in distress and most of their family back at home, justifying themselves with this superior attitude when in reality they are depending on their relatives back home for all but the basics.
I have met many who are just the opposite. They have jobs, they have a car, their kids are fine. Your words sound like an excuse.
Every country has Israeli drug dealers in its jails.
You can substitute U.S., Mexican, or Colombian, for Israeli and the sentence would be equally true.