>one generation can't "get" the entertainment of the next generation. It has always been like that.

Given the quality of 2026's entertainment, looks like they had a point. And likely they had one at 2006 and 1986 and 1966 too.

This is Sturgeon's Law: "ninety percent of everything is crap".

But the corollary to it is the fact 10% of everything isn't crap, and just as there always has been crap, there always has been excellence. Just less of it.