Both are kinda true. We didn’t have all of human knowledge in our pocket at all times, the ability to meet people of the same interests across the planet, and the ability to order pretty much anything we want within the day.
We also could afford a decent living situation, it wasn’t a daily struggle to remain thin, and weren’t seriously worried about a Christian Nationalism take over.
It is like everything that depended on shared institutions got worse and everything that depended on one individuals or single companies got better.