Enshittification happened but look at how life changed since 1999 (25 years as you mentioned). Songs in your palm, search in your palm, maps in your palm or car dashboard, live traffic rerouting, track your kids plane from home before leaving for airport, book tickets without calling someone. WhatsApp connected more people than anything.
Of course there are scams and online indoctrination not denying that.
Maybe each service degraded from its original nice view but there is an overall enhancement of our ability to do things.
Hopefully the same happens over next 25 years. A few bad things but a lot of good things.
absurd, the claim that Google search was better 25 years ago than today. that's vastly trivializing the amount of volume and scale that Google needs to process
