Sure, I'ld rather be doomscrolling on tiktok than being stuck for 4 years in trenches in France during WW1, we are talking about larger trend across time though.

> I just don't trust any measure that's over 20 years old.

Then take psychological measures that are 20 years old or less, they all go in the same direction.

Or if you don't trust psychology, take suicide rate, pretty hard to miscount, and is not subject to much change in how people self-report whether or not they killed themselves.

You seem to be conflating how you think people ought to feel given their privileged conditions versus how they actually happen to feel.