It's funny because my grandpa called us pussies for playing in man made safe playgrounds instead of in the woods. Every generation will think the next one is coddled.
Well, if there's a progressive increase in coddling and formalisation of play, certainly.
But perhaps once these practices begin to be reversed, people will feel that it's terrifying that the children are suddenly independent and not incredibly passive and cowardly.
That's really good to hear, but I hope you go much further than you have imagined, getting to some kind of Norway or Sweden level, or beyond it, to drive us back to where we ought to be.
After my 15yo son when hiking with friends to sleep in caves without a tent I do not call him a pussy anymore. It actually made me feel that I forgot to live properly when I way young.
But perhaps once these practices begin to be reversed, people will feel that it's terrifying that the children are suddenly independent and not incredibly passive and cowardly.