I do believe that we are living in an overflow of things right now and this makes it much harder to enjoy something.
While in the 80s or 90´s going to the cinema to watch a new movie was a huge deal with celebrations and gatherings, you can now watch thousands of movies online just by yourself. It just isn´t the same to press a button and watch something, where you know it will be there “forever” compared to a one or two months showing in your local cinema.
When a new PC game came out in the 90´s, people were anticipating it, they read all the news about it in their monthly PC magazine. On day of release, the postman brought it, but sometimes he was late and you had to wait another day.
All that exitement was special, having a hard time to sleep, because you knew at 11 AM the doorbell might ring and you can install the game after school or work and play, not knowing in advance how good or bad it may be, despite reading the news article in the games magazine 20 times, looking at screenshots…
When Vanilla WOW came out, it felt special. It no longer does so today and I honestly have not played a WOW Expansion on release day since Cata.
Before release, you already know everything about it, what you may like, what you may not like, as it´s all there on the internet. When I played Monkey Island, I had no clue how to move on, so we had to phone friends of a friend, it was hillarious what we were willing to do to just sink the ship or feed the monkey.
If you are stuck at a game today, you open your browser and find the answers within seconds.
At WOW, my Warlock was using a level 19 sword at level 60, I had no idea I lost DPS with it, nobody knew it, it was completely ignored. Imagine someone running a Rank 14 premade today, with a level 19 weapon. It won´t happen, people would harass you for it. 
When online gaming started, just meeting someone, talking to someone you never met before, it felt special. Diablo 1 in the lobby, joining a game, meeting someone who had a staff that you did not, it was all so interesting and you had to ask where he got it from.
Meeting someone from your country, town or even same neighborhood it felt so exciting, you were truly invested in the other persons life, as it was all new, be it the job, living situation, experience… Our Vanilla guild, met to paintball events, people from all over Europe came to this, we did rent a villa for a week and played golf. Who does this today?
Today, you just go to wowhead, or an addon shows you where to find something, the quest marker tells you the spot and often you don´t know what you are actually doing, as you just want to get this marker off your map quickly.
People appreciated other people, today many treat them as a necessary evil or even an obstacle, just like with game features that don´t lead to the best gear.
At WOW we do daily quests, weekly raids, not because we enjoy the company, not because we see new things, but because we get points to buy gear.
Back then, people were called a nerd for investing time into a certain aspect of their life. Today, you have tourists everywhere like the Swifties attending football games, despite not being interested in the game at all.
Same hype we see with streamers, influencers you name it. To many just follow someone, instead of coming up with their own life and this hurts the overall experience. Going somewhere, doing something was not releated to you generating followers, having your virtual footprint established, but because you were interested in experiencing it.
Yes, we had less information / access to things, but at the same time we had more fun with the little bit we had and felt like a community.
I would love to just sit down with the Devs of Blizzard, talking about something I feel the game should have but it won´t happen. They are living in their own bubble, just like everyone these days and this hurts connecting with others, despite having all the tools available today.
And all of this, also applies to the life outside of gaming, but since we are a gaming forum, I won´t touch this any further, to not go off topic.
That being said, what you have said about the 80s and 90s, I often felt about the 50´s and 60´s. Woodstock must have been a blast, the entire Hippie generation living the current day not the next, it´s actually fun how similar a lot of aspects from the 60s were to the 90´s.
