No, it's people being unwilling to accept agency and own up to their faults. If we're evaluating a system of rules and how to improve them, trying to understand perverse incentives is important. But it is not an excuse for any individual who violates moral standards to do so because they had an incentive.
The problem is that much perverse behavior is not inherently immoral. Not all forms of p-hacking are unjustifiable, nor are attempts to increase citations through publication fragmentation, nor is appealing to grant providers with research that you consider duplicative. But all of these things make science worse.
