I think much of the problem is that today's systems have vast amounts of eye candy that was all but nonexistent back in the 80s and 90s. X terminals and 486s do

I think much of the problem is that today's systems have vast amounts of eye candy that was all but nonexistent back in the 80s and 90s. X terminals and 486s don't have the resources to throwing fancy visual effects on the screen, and sometimes might not even be color displays.