[ishjoh]

I tend to agree with your assessment that this is the age of "quality doesn't matter" but I would like to tweak it a little bit. This is the age where novelty is more important than quality.

Something new can be of the lowest quality imaginable, but something old still must be very high quality to get peoples attention.

Even here on hacker news where if a title doesn't have the year it was published there will be at least one comment with that information, and often it will later be added to the title.

[mihaic]

Hmmm, I wonder if it might be a side-effect of people knowing that new things are crap, so might as well have the freshest crap.

On the other hand I was shocked when I heard people use "old movies" to refer to those of the 2000s, so maybe I've lost touch too much with mainstream tastes, and how these might have been altered when only consuming contemporary entertainment.