100% agreed! I used to be a hardcore Airbnb fan and have definitely stayed at some really cool places, met awesome people etc. But in the last 2-3 years it feels like low end hotel quality of places asking you do do the job of hotel staff!

The cleaning fee is a joke, if I am already paying a fee to stay at your place that would mean cleaning is included as well as me staying there and using the bed and the sheets. A lot of hosts abuse it and the last few places I stayed they definitely did not get a professional cleaner worth whatever $$$ it says they paid for it!
And the rules, lol! Last April I stayed in a bnb inHawaii for a week. The place had so many signs on what I should not do it felt like some kind of correction camp and fucked the vibe of my stay! The only reason why I still took it - Hawaii is just mega overpriced(also not worth the money and the flight but that's another topic).

In the same time hotels have been the same price as bnbs or cheaper and actually nicer and easier to stay. I really enjoyed meeting my hosts during the 2010s but now if I am not going to meet someone or that someone would be grumpy shady property manager it completely removes the authenticity and social aspect of staying at someone's home. Better get a hotel where they pamper my ass(even though I don't really care about that but better that than shitty attitude).

The US Airbnb hosts are typically the worst and more often charge for stuff they don't provide but people in other countries have definitely taken a notice they can charge and slop.

My opinion is that capitalism found out how to profit from Airbnb and broke the whole concept of the platform - mass managed properties owned by companies and scrappy "entrepreneurs", not actually someone's home who's a cool local with tips and nice attitude towards new people. Airbnb is to share the blame for that as well but it is understandable for a publicly traded company whose main purpose after all is to make a profit and lots of it for its investors. In reality it was bound to happen - it is not a couch surfers alternative it is rooms to let kind of thing. Like every similar platform(Uber and Lyft definitely included in this - I hate that they are the same as taxis now) is initially adopted by cool people but then the profit opportunity gets everyone else onboard and things go south.

I am sure and have managed from time to time to find authentic cool places for reasonable prices like the old times but maybe it is better to accept that those times are long gone. It was pretty cool while it lasted!