The same on a smaller scale happened with modern consumer computing. We like to complain but

* have OLED screens and dark modes which are amazing after sundown,

* virtually everything works on Linux, especially all effectively mandatory/government services (at least here in Poland),

* and with some hardware selection Linux works everywhere,

* batteries last ages and everything can be charged via USB-C,

* smartphone cameras now finally exceed my own vision, have amazing zoom and take great nighttime photos (although not of moving stuff yet),

* the ecosystem allows to magically summon a car,

* can have an e2e encrypted multimodal (video, photos, documents, text) conversation with virtually everyone we know, wherever they are in the world, live or asynchronously,

* not to mention LLMs just doing things for you like a tireless assistant.

All of these were a dream when I first set up a home server in 2004. Some like OLED were a dream I didn't even know I had, the LCD glow just annoyed me.