I do wonder if its a glass is half full / half empty thing, sure there are a lot of dumb/stupid things and covid has revealed a lot more than I thought possible. But, there are also a lot of fantastic things - one of the reasons I look at HN to see the latest science. There are, probably, a lot fewer people who are struggling towards the light, but the effect they generate overwhelms the negative, imho, choose that and the other stuff disappears.