I'm not sure if your post is making fun of the original author, but what parts of "the economy", other than customer demand, do you think destroyed these pubs?

Inflation that has made it unaffordable for clients to patronise pubs.

There's a difference between "I want to drink less" and "I can't afford to drink as much as I want"

Inflation means that many people also earn more money. In the US that seems to be mostly at the bottom end for now though.

They didn't close for economic reasons. They have been slowly dying along with their patrons and have been ramping costs to cover this for the last couple of decades. They then tried to reinvent themselves. It has now reached the point of saturation.

Also a lot of people have complete alcoholics in their family and history and it's not seen as a socially acceptable thing and is tied to negative sentiment as well.

Yup. This is because costs are too high and people literally can't afford to go patronize their local establishments.

Some people are indeed living better lives, freer of problems for not being around alcohol. Yes. But a lot of people are probably at home watching the tele instead, and many of them were fine &didn't have problems with alcohol in the old culture. And a good number of the people who would have had problems are pants drunk instead, and some who would have been fine happy people having a pub scene are probably doing much worse instead.