[ghusto]

Except I was there during phase 1 and 2, and still feel everything's fallen apart. I saw what it was, what it was becoming, and what it's become.

This isn't nostalgia or granpa shouting at clouds, many important things are objectively worse now.

[direwolf20]

you imply you're in phase 3 now, having been through phases 1 and 2, and that is the phase where everything feels falling apart.