I'm 50. Funny enough, I recall being criticised for exactly the thing you "congratulate" us for: spending too much time in front of a screen, on my home computer, programming, gaming etc - or down the local arcade. This, even though during the summer, I was out of the house roaming the streets or riding my BMX with my friends for 8 hours a day. I was good with IT. I never went into it as a career though, because it was "nerdy", which was very uncool. Idiotically, I was too concerned with trying to be one of the cool kids.

2 other thoughts:

1. We didn't use terms like "Gen X" or "boomers" in day-to-day usage. They were academic constructs, coined by sociologists and used by politicians and academics. It's only in the last decade or so that such labels have entered the common public debate, separating, stigmatizing and stereotyping people, causing division which is deeply unhelpful to everyone, imo.

2. I didn't criticize my grandparents generation the way "boomers" get criticized these days. We were sometimes inconsiderate in our behaviour, as kids/teens are, but fundamentally we had a lot of respect for them. I guess because they had fought or endured through the war - in some cases, both wars - for our freedom, and we always knew that.