I would venture to suggest... that the good old days were mostly driven by graphic artists......

the old crowd were interested in creativity, a lot of the time 'for it's own sake' as a learning experience; I am not sure you can do that with a website as it has to fullfil a practical need or it's pointless

and it seems to me that webmasters and branding bunnies mostly hang out on social media - the optics and exposure level of the likes of TG are not in it's favour

and I see gary has now posted along similar lines...