Covid aside, which is self inflicted, I highly disagree.
The other issues aren't exactly unconcerning, but I think we have to acknowledge that this is a quite peaceful time. For most of history, what we call "unrest" was the status quo, and there were in addition wars of open territorial conquest which are nearly extinct today.
- Continued urbanization is essential to growth as we know it
- Non-urban voters are less attuned to what cities need to grow
Then regardless of political ideology, our disticts + FPTP method of growing makes non-negligible growth of the real economy very difficult.
History tends to get highly filtered and very little attention is paid to the incredibly bumpy road those times represent.