Some of the first comments on Reddit were complaints about the site going downhill in almost exactly the same terms people use today: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/17913/reddit_no...

Nostalgia is powerful! The key has always been to unsubscribe all the “front page” (once “default”) subreddits.

That's true. But also every platform eventually gets bad and dies... probably?