These periodic articles hand-wringing over the loss of old internet quirkiness are basically just re-posing a question isomorphic to "Why aren't people more fun

These periodic articles hand-wringing over the loss of old internet quirkiness are basically just re-posing a question isomorphic to "Why aren't people more fun and weird?" or "Why isn't society/culture/reality more fun and weird?", which are not actually interesting questions in my opinion. I mean, I get it, the internet used to be a different before it was the primary infrastructure for most human productivity, but is it not basically self-evident why things get less fun and weird when the user base goes from futurist nerds to everyone else?