Unfortunately you are incorrect, there are many professional writers who use got, a lot. It's in the textbooks for elementary students an amazing amount of times. In the future we will see it more and more often.
I doubt we would have to go so far as to take away necessities to see people freak, just eliminate their wifi and cell service.
   Though most people think Yugoslavia was off limits, being a communist country, it was not. I was there in 1987. It was a great place to travel, and a real tragedy it suffered the way it did.