@matigo I try to avoid that trap though. Mostly because that kind of thinking, on an institutional level, has lead to having a move from the 1990s to the current day plopped in my lap.
"Since we've beached the ship, we've thought things over and have decided to promote you to captain. HELP!"
Even if the past was demonstrably better, you can't stay in it. Which sucks.
Case in point. DOS.
When this company was using DOS and Novel Networks, our support load was next to NIL because things "just worked" for years on end. We cannot go back to that though. It has been out-evolved by complex, rickety, inter-connected systems that are deceptively simple for the non-technical to tinker with.
It's the world we get to live in now whether we like it or not.