Things are never as good as they used to be, as they once were. No matter what the thing, this is always true, or at least there is always someone who will argue that. No matter what one is talking about, there is always, apparently, some “golden age” of that thing or some thing, when it was better, and whatever that thing is, it’s gone downhill and degraded, ever since. This is something that can always be counted on, no matter what that “thing” may be: There will always be people who will tell you that whatever it was, it was good then, it was better then and now it sucks.
Not saying it doesn’t play out that way; I think there really are things that used to be better and now we have things that aren’t as good, but all these things that used to be better but now suck are all stacked up, one on top of the other; there is an almost an infinite number of things, piled up, one on another, that used to be better but suck now. Every who knows how many years, but at the very least every generation or so, someone adds something to the big old pile of things that used to be better and then, well, after some period or time or some event, everything went to shit and now, all those things that were better, that were good then, have been replaced and usurped by other “things” that are crap. It’s the way of the world.