There is something real to it. It's not just nostalgia or a fad. Go and look at product manuals from the 70s through 90s. They're awesome and detailed with diag

There is something real to it. It's not just nostalgia or a fad. Go and look at product manuals from the 70s through 90s. They're awesome and detailed with diagrams and even exposition discussing the general genre of product. For example, synth manuals would actually teach you about synthesis while also covering the synthesizer in question in great detail. Nowadays, you are lucky to get a little placard of quick tips. The fact that manuals were produced with such care when it was really hard to do so is insight into how much thought was given to the entire product. It's not necessarily that the products are technically superior. It's that honest hard work was put into the products. You walked into a store and purchased it from a person. It couldn't be easier to produce product manuals these days with modern software, and yet it's never done. Today's consumer landscape is about disposability and scale. You have companies like Apple that intentionally remove features so that they can sell you them separately, like the dongle mess. Apple lied to their customers for the reasons they were removed and now sell them parts that costs sub-cents for dozens and hundreds of dollars. There is something real about all of this that modern people yearn for. I remember having to buy technology as a kid. You talked to people, asked them questions, and they new things about the product. It wasn't about just pushing a virtual button.