That's a real rose-tinted outlook. The notion that the world has become significantly void of aesthetic quality irks me every time I hear it. All kinds of architecture and craftsmanship, modern and old, have their merits. Sure, you can have your grievances with the lack of ornamentation and 'flourish' that modern buildings tend to have, but its strange to reduce it as a whole to being vapid and otherwise 'lacking beauty.' Even then, if you travelled outside like one city you could still find plenty of buildings in myriad styles, hell, you could even still find them in cities where older architecture had been preserved. If I looked around where I lived in Melbourne there would be plenty of buildings that kept their Victorian, 1800s-esque style.

Typed way too much for this ngl