I'm very much from the same era, "stfu and fork it", "PoC or GTFO".
And as I got older, I realized "I am not the customer, there is no money in responding to me, I am a net negative cost to your business".
And uhh... I'll shuffle the F out now then? And try and catch-up on 200 years of math.
I don't think anything has changed IRL, aside from my knees hurting