I feel like I've been in such a phase for a good 10-15 years now. I miss looking back and marvel at the technological progress we've made, and eagerly anticipating the next exciting thing. For a while now, I look back wondering why so few people seem bothered by the fact that technology becomes worse every year, with fewer features, lower quality, and more stupidity; and new developments are no longer about exciting improvements, but dreading what new thing that used to work perfectly fine is broken now.

For a bit, I thought science and industry were finally starting to see the problem with our quality degradation and tech regression. Instead, the current hype cycle is all about settling for even crappier quality and lower reliability.