Absolutely. I'm not trying to dump on them. It may not have come through with my choice of verbiage, but there's something romantic (in the aesthetic sense) and admirable about what they've done and their attitudes. That kind of unbridled optimism and confidence of youth that can be hard to cultivate as we get older.
Life is full of cringe and certainly I have had more than my fair share of it, who am I to judge anyone. Maybe I am even far more cringe than an average person, or maybe I notice my cringe much more, I hope it is the last, but I can never tell.