Not sure whar you are mourning. It is just that the bar has gotten stratosphericly higher, which is awesome.

I along with most of HN probably had a new idea every month for a game or software back in the day. 12 year old me could only dream to maybe work on something tangential to them in the next twenty years or even a lifetime. Now i could prototype most of those ideas as i thought them up and really get into the promising ones.

I feel like i was born too late and missed out, straight up jealous of the possibilities in front of the kids willing to take it