Why so many gloom and doomers on this site

YY1 said
The good old days when it took 6-8 weeks to deliver anything.

...ordered from a catalog that you had to buy...after you figured out where to get one.

I had a large binder full of catalogs and a stack of even more catalogs.

And...
A huge stack of mopar mags and popular mechanics...

I remember those days.