Perspective

It's become quite fashionable to bash things that are now obsolete as crap as if they'd always clearly been crap all along.

So crappy that they were obviously obsolete years before they were supplanted by newer designs.

The arguments are always expressed in a vacuum where many if not all of the influencing factors are flat ignored.

Reminds me a lot of book and film critics.  You know, the people that don't create a damn thing yet sit in judgement of the worth of the product when they are not, in fact, the customer?

Just because there is something better does not make it bad.

It's why some debates are so tiresome.

You read some sites and it's a wonder we won in WW2 with all the crap we had to work with.  Yet...

It's only the jaundiced modern eye looking back that sees the lack of worth and not the contemporary view.