Some of the small kits are even worse:
Go back a few years and that would have been made from about 30 generic bricks instead of about 10 preshaped ones.
But every one of those bits could still be used for something other than its original kit. Looking at it, yeah there’s some bits you couldn’t get in the 80s but they’re all equivalent to stuff you could- that kit would have been a bit more angular but otherwise the same.
People complain about imagination but frankly if you can’t take modern lego and build something just as stupid as we used to, it’s you that lacks imagination. All our space stations were made out of castles, my last spaceship was a pirate ship hull with bodywork off old blue space lego, and rocket motors bolted to the top and bottom. And it was ****ing awesome.