This is the old "things aren't the way they used to be" complaint. Always a crowd-pleaser, but also an inevitable constant and not necessarily bad. It's also r

This is the old "things aren't the way they used to be" complaint. Always a crowd-pleaser, but also an inevitable constant and not necessarily bad. It's also really weak how it throws "safetyism" in there even though it doesn't even try to connect it to playtime. To me it feels like it's purposely conflating the inevitability of change (along with its attendant discomfort), the physical safety of children, and the invented political wedge concept of "safetyism" for the clicks. Just more dumb crap. It's also unclear how much "safetyism" is responsible for the changes in play vs some of the million other things that are different from decades ago. It comes off as a cheap shot to me, and a rather dumb one at that. E.g., adding the pejorative "ism" to added to