It's insane how fast things were moving in the years between 1980 and 2010 in terms of video games. My favorite example of the disgusting rate tech was advancing during this period is that in about ten years we went from Doom 1 to Doom 3.
By contrast between 2010 and today the progress seems pretty slow.
I think you're just getting older and with more experience, it takes more to impress, while the technological progress is more and more in biotech and other high tech fields that consumers aren't exposed to as often.
I mean, we literally just had a global pandemic where the vaccine was developed in weeks and brought to market in under a year. That's nearly Star Trek levels of tech where they develop some brand new cure within an episode.
mRNA vaccines wasn't some sort of green field, companies just plugged new virus into products and methologies they worked on for decade(s). What made it fast was all the bureucratic red tape removed, instead of 10 years of staged trials and processes we got few months iirc and massive fingers crossed.
Star trek level would be finding 100% vaccine with 0 side effects and instant cure of infected on spot, in few minutes, by single doctor/medic in tiny 1-room lab. Not yet there. Not diminishing the mammoth continuous effort of all involved here just to be clear
Other innovative technologies, used by smartphones, consoles and other consumer electronics, which are also now ubiquitous, like low-cost high-definition LCDs, broadband internet, wi-fi, Bluetooth, cellular data, flash storage, active-pixel sensors, USB and HDMI, were also developed during that period.
Most of these things peaked at 2004-5 at most.
The first three full-3D Grand Theft Auto games, III, Vice City, and San Andreas, all shipped on the Playstation 2.
Grand Theft Auto V, by contrast, has been the latest game in the series across three successive console generations.
It isn't even comparable. Modern games have thousands of hours of recorded motion capture, people in the hundreds and thousands recording professionally acted and written dialogue and three music albums worth of a soundtrack. No offense to the original Deus Ex and what have you but it had like four people (https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/video-games/Deus-Ex/) reading the entire script and it sounded sometimes like it was recorded in someone's closet.