The pervasive sense that "everything new is bad" and the culture-wide obsession with past aesthetics are indications of an era with deep-rooted reactionary brainworms I think. Give me a future I haven't seen before. Futurism that is not retrofuturism.
technologists are not exactly doing themselves any favour by actually making most new things bad
but of course, the death of ownership, subscription everything, AI trying to subsume the arts and every other human endeavour, everyone i know in economic peril because of "efficiency" and app based gig work :) .... these aren't the things the mean when they say it's bad
i don't want to hate everything new, i want to feel hopeful and excited about all the new things we're just figuring out how to do, but god damn does the modern capitalist hellscape we live in make that really hard