I find it extremely ironic that when concrete criticism about how a specific thing used to be "better" by some metric, this old chest nut is brought out, displa

I find it extremely ironic that when concrete criticism about how a specific thing used to be "better" by some metric, this old chest nut is brought out, displaying the shallowness it claims to speak out against. The people who think everything "used to be better"? They're a straw man, while they may exist neither you or I even talk to them, and not one of them ever posted here or elsewhere on the internet. But they're trotted out alllllll the time. I first noticed that when I was like 20 or 21, so what was the reason then? My high IQ artificually inflating my age, me getting old before my time? Heh.