I'm not sure how to describe this, but people seem like they personalise things a lot less in this day and age.
For example back when I was a kid, everyone had custom ringtones, but nobody does now.
Back when I was playing #PSOBB, people would mod the game's aesthetics so much, whether it was using custom skins or even creating them.
Now? Nobody does any of these things, everyone has and uses all the same things, don't customise stuff even if given the option and it's like... what happened!?
I also found that curious to say the least.
One explanation I found, which explains one small piece of the puzzle, is that years ago I noticed how everyone with an iPhone used the default ringtone, so everyone heard & immediately knew, that guy's using an iPhone, basically as a personal status symbol.
Sounds absolutely ridiculous to me, especially since to me this sounds like people are being proud of having a broken toilet, which cost way too much.
Another explanation for another piece, which I have thought of, is how people get dumber & dumber when it's about technology.
"Back then" you had to read the manuals to get shit even running, to to mention make it work the way you want to. Even games had manuals. It was also normal to repair your own stuff, so there were also manuals for the internals, etc. That was all the most normal thing in the world.
Now, everything in mainstream technology is so extremely dumbed down, everyone can use it within minutes. While it's actually great to increase accessibility & adoption among demographics, it obviously leads to people not really researching anything about what they do with technology. Like, you don't even get manuals. You are lucky, if you can download a PDF manual for your computer. You won't get any nearly complete manual for your smartphone or any other product like that.
This also explains why people use Facebook etc., simply because they are not aware of what is going on there, like every single picture you ever uploaded to #Facebook is literally *owned* by Mark #Zuckerberg. Most Normies don't know that.
People don't realise, that #privacy has a different importance, nowadays. Back then, if you weren't privacy conscious, it's just that your village or small city knew about you, that's it.
If you don't care about privacy today, every entity on the entire world knows everything about you. Including North Korea, China, Russia, USA, etc. governments.
Additionally, all your stalkers, haters, rapists & companies like #Google, #Facebook, #Amazon, etc.
We lost scarcity of Entertainment, what's the point of modifying a plastic cup?
On the other hand... the niche creative communities and cultures exploded, we have for example a whole community dedicated to DIY keyboards https://github.com/qmk
