The most salient part of the pic to me isn't a transition from quality to shoddiness or good to evil, the reverse, or whatever. It's the dissolution of a vast infrastructure to transmit knowledge and turn pupils to masters, whose existence allowed the first picture to be made. https://twitter.com/Trungles/status/1302641334914887682

The first picture requires a more complex infrastructure to exist than the last one does, and is more technically demanding to make in itself. This is true even if you prefer the last picture, which you're entitled to do.

You can prefer trollies to Saturn Vs. you can think trollies fit into your own life better, which they almost certainly do. You can think trollies are more equitable and functionally useful for disadvantaged people than Saturn Vs. This is all fine. But.

If someone looks around, notices that their society used to build Saturn Vs, but now maxes out technically at the trolley factory, they're correct to suspect something has degenerated. And I am fucking begging you, don't take true things and say "wow, only NAZIS would say that."