Sorry I couldn't reply. I had just gotten out of my bubble bath, hopped in my Jammie's and was finishing off some milk and cookies which btw I spilled some on my new Star Wars bedsheets!!!
After school I will reply with something witty boomer!
You said gamers are soft nowadays. Unless you perceive softness as a positive trait instead of a negative (and if you do, disregard), that means you consider gamers are worse nowadays. By extension then, you must also consider the environment that produced "tough" gamers superior to the current landscape, thus things were better before.