You're not just getting older and grumpier, looking back and reminiscing at better times.
You're noticing the world has turned to slop.
Architecture.
Food.
Information / news.
Products and services.
Society.
No soul or substance. It's all cheap and nasty slop.
You're not imagining it.
They removed CD/DVD drives from devices.
They made physical media harder to buy and use.
They removed expandable storage from phones.
They pushed us into streaming subscriptions.
They made always-online normal.
They made unlimited internet necessary.
Then slowly raised the price of everything.
Ownership quietly became renting.