This is classic boomer materialism. "Thing are better" is incredibly vague. When you use a retarded materialist definition, you can argue that any given time is always better than any previous time because our sailfoams have twice as many giggleflops or some guy in china made a laser that's twice as powerful as last year's.
When you use actual metrics like:
-food (nutritionally abysmal in modern times),
-shelter (safety and trust are gone, sqft/$ is much less relevant to the soul),
-love (mate finding is a flaming shitshow, intergenerational bonds are destroyed, children are demonized and predated on)
its exceedingly obvious that things have gotten successively and undeniably worse.
Boomers will do anything to avoid culpability including looking at skyrocketing suicide/OD rates and concluding that modern men are just too weak to hack it, not that things are infinitely worse for the soul.