[bg4]

You're not wrong sadly - I've commented very much the same thing for the experience I had in the 80s compared to today.

[giantg2]

Isn't that the general trend with most things?

Kids today have more oversight and less freedom. God forbid you build a rope bridge because someone might fall off it and sue you to oblivion. Even playing unsupervised around the neighborhood is frowned upon and can result on the police showing up.

[Shared404]

I had a similar experience over the course of the 2000s - 2010s.

Though my issue was as much with the increasing top heaviness of the funding as anything else.