>>Sounds like a statistician's crutch-expression gone wild. It has completely eradicated the other.

>I must have accidentally doubled up my stupid pills because I am still not tracking. What is the difference between the two phrases? Is it the verbosity of "on a daily basis" that you object to?

It's its omnipresence at the price of extinction of the previous simple form, and the fact that it seems to pollute my language too. I've heard enough of those in pretty much any language I learned, and they all annoy me. The champion, however, is replacing "I'll {verb}" with "what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna {verb}".