Is Acrylic bad for my nails?

Situation: You get a set of acrylics done at the mall. Cool, long nails!

You get them taken off 3 weeks later… and your nails that grew out underneath are now nice and long - but they’re bendy, thin, weak, and start splitting and cracking almost immediately.

The general thought process is, “I got acrylics, therefore acrylic ruined my nails” - in reality, your weak, bendy nails are a result of heaps of layers being removed unnecessarily in the prep and removal process.