As a community HN has a strong normalcy bias to the point where they will flag and down vote comments and articles that challenge it too much. The worst something can be admitted to be is "not great now, but we'll have a fix in soon". In general this community is blind to any of the major systemic issue we are facing that are likely to forever decrease our quality of live.
I'm reminded of an interview with a few years back with the mayor of Tangier, an island which is visibly sinking off the coast of Virginia. In one instance the mayor points to a part of the sea where a community playground used to be, and when asked about climate change, without skipping a beat, replies that he just doesn't see any evidence for it.
That was a few years back now, and it was then I realized that for a certain subset of the population, no matter how real the decline of our civilization is, they will never see it. The Hoover dam could stop running from the emptying of lake mead, we could have global crop failures and being living with intermittent power outages, all of us living lives that are unquestionably worse off than 10 years ago and people in the community would still be decrying that everything was media sensationalism (even though the media rarely reports on anything being as dire as it is).