Am I the only one?

Nope,
It's not just you but I guess its just whatever era your from and what your familiar with. I think many of us older folks yearn and have remembrances of simpler times and a slower pace. Maybe its just because we were younger and weren't yet stifled with a million responsibilities. Baggy pants and 20" wheels are imo the stupidest looking things on earth and a vehicle on 20's probably has a saggy pant driver. You mentioned "Billet" and as a lifelong machinist I have always found the over usage of this terminology to be Hilarious and is always featured in catalogs like its some kind of rocket science technology...freakin ridiculous. My 65' is about to lose it's Thirteens and haven't yet decided what's going on there but they will be bigger....69' Cuda (Fenton's)and 64' Valiant (Weld's) need wide for traction...well not really but don't want the added expense of making a small tire like a 10.5 plant, even though I dig the cars that do it on 10.5's.
You are not alone in your thinking and I'm not anti-technology but god help the world with some of the crappy car designs and looks they have nowadays as they all but a few look the same to me and have zero personality or styling lines and I couldn't give a rat's *** about six million miles of wiring and modules and chips and such. Yeah you might be able to blow my doors off but when we're parked next to each other somewhere, it's my 10k ride that gets noticed not your 50k ride and a little ego stoke in moderation is always good for the soul.