I prefer these days, when the absolute amount of information like this is higher, even if there's also higher amounts of junk.

I can just not look at the junk today, compared to 25 years ago when the information I wanted only existed in a physical library in a different country.

Even still a lot of information is not online. I've been building a web sail trim simulator and had to hunt down a physical copy of the Aero-Hydrodynamics of Sailing book by Marchaj, because a lot of the formulas and models I needed to simulate the boat were not online, and what was online was often wrong.