If all of a sudden, Hacker News decided to add a 2px blur filter to this entire website using CSS, making everything harder to read, would your desire to have it go back to the way it was be for 'nostalgic' reasons? I suppose you could argue 'yes' because presently reading this site right now is satisfying in some way, and you would want to return to it being satisfying. But is that THE reason? If someone walks into your room right now and begins to torture you with a knife, do you say 'Hey stop i have nostalgic memories of not being tortured 30 seconds ago?' Again yes... damn you are right nostalgia is blinding!

The phrase "it's just superior in literally every way" is pretty hard to argue for.

I wasn't saying that all nostalgia is blinding, nor that it is the only thing that blinds.

A 2px blur filter would be blinding.