Of course it is. We're just told differently until a leaker proves differently. Twenty years too late to do anything about it
Other than having some vested interest in denying people's right to choose between positive and negative aspects of progress, or having a Stockholm syndrome towards those who have such interest, I got no plausible explanations to this psychological phenomenon
You seem to be wasting your precious “armchair psychologist skills” here on hn.
And “modern” is going back over a decade. So most cars on the road.