Yeah... this is bs. Literally no way you wouldn't notice they were still there.

Is no one going to comment on the fact the right ladder isn't making progress at all? It's permanently stuck at 10 instead of increasing by 10 each time.

When you break your leg you're not slightly injured and then get worse over time. I was using your example and showing how it was inaccurate. Your new example about losing your job etc is completely different.

That said, also in that case the climb up is not sudden like frame 3 suggests. Rehabilitation is a long grueling process, not something that happens overnight. You can provide whatever example you like, but progress never takes on the form of frame 3. Only in extremely, extremely specific examples it could happen, and those are absolutely an exception rather than the norm.

Absolutely not. After breaking your leg you will be at rockbottom and slowly build up again like frame 1 or 2, not get worse and worse and suddenly pop back up to be better than ever before.

Very clearly not what the water indicates though, you don't suddenly start progressing quicker and quicker in the first one.

Commenter above was right, the third option here means nothing, the very next ball may be completely empty, we don't know that.
If they wanted to make a point about ups and downs at least show the average is going up. Having higher ups and lower downs means nothing.