Good futures, sure. But not as cool. No Tannhauser Gate, no Kessel Run.
But the second sentence there is unwarranted. Someone can lament their hopes and dreams dying while still caring about the realistic needs of the world around them.
I don’t mean to come across as rude, I just can’t really understand what you mean unless you’re saying that you’re sad magic isn’t real
You're saying you never, ever, not once thought interstellar travel and space colonies might happen one day. Far into the future, of course.
My dream of interstellar travel died once I grew up a bit and learned about relativity. But colonies in our solar system and the rest are dead because of money more than anything else.