In the US maybe. And even then I would doubt it. But the thing is, access to gaming throughout the world was pretty bad still. US and Japan worked better, but Europe not so much and other countries even worse.

And as I said before: with the Indie explosion we see more games covering more niches with more creativity than ever.

I'll conceed and say it's possible we are. However, the gaming landscape is rapidly shifting for the worse. The emphasis on subscriptions and mass consolidation of the industry are incredibly dangerous.

I don't mean to be a Debbie Downer, but it's not to me really.

I only care about whether or not I have fun with a video game, so I don't care in the slightest about points 1,2,3,4 and 6. They could be 180 degrees the other way around and it would be exactly the same for me. Points 5 and 7 would be of interest, but they're both untrue to me. Great games aren't really coming because I'm not interested in any of them. Or well, almost any of them. It's all one big borefest of same old same old and I'm not really impressed by anything anymore. So, to put it bluntly; I'm not having as much fun, the only thing I care about, as in some other time period so no this is not the best time to be a gamer to me.

Maybe I've just grown out of it.

Yeah I'm speaking about US only.  The 90s was amazing.  So many great games.  Granted I like older games because modern games are too big and has too much narrative.  Contra 3 is a great example, it just takes off running immediately.

As far as accesibility and public perception, yes, I'd say we are living the best era yet. No need to ponder too deep into that concept.
As far as gaming itself, the Genesis/SNES era was vastly superior.

In some ways, yes. The Switch is my favorite system, in part because it encompasses everything from Pong to Xenoblade Chronicles 3, and has loads of RPGs.

What I'm not so nuts about are the buyouts and consolidation locking games into ecosystems I do not want to support, as well as the growing presence of China, where the CPC is more deeply entrenched than it has been since Mao was alive, in the gaming market.

How is that any different than AAA games of today? $70 is the entry price but they end up costing more than cartridge games of the 90s because of all the MTX and shit. Then you have 5 different editions then day 1 eiditons and gold editions. A bunch of bullshit.  Sports games are the worst they make them practiclly unplayable unless you get all the fake cards and currency. Meanwhile in 1999 I'm popping in NFL Blitz and having hours of fun. That's the other thing sports games were not limited to one developer or console. They came to everything and everyone was allowed to make them. No Legacy editions. Arcade Sports games like Blitz were allowed to exist. EA killed it's compeition NFL2K.

This video perfectly sums up the issues I have with modern gaming

The 90s for me is the best era.
Great consoles (Snes,genesis,ps1 and N64) plus a lot of fantastic arcade games.
We have tons of quality rpgs and incredible fighting games..
Now i am a mostly xbox player and i love Halo , but the 90S where the best. time for gaming for me.
I am from Chile, and games and consoles were not that expensive in that time.

I never bought a Microtransaction in my life and I'm sure most of them are totally optional. If a game need mandatory pay to win, just avoid them there are still many options to play. 

People here are so dramatic with DLCs and special editions when you can just skip all them. Now we have options, plenty of options. We can buy smaller budget games that in past would NEVER be released outside US/Japan. 

In the 90s your options were to buy whatever was popular enough to get a release in your country, good luck in they don't align with your personal tastes. How many JRPGs never crossed their home country because of budget and localization issues? 

With no internet nobody knew for sure was being released worldwide, only what companies could pay to advertise in magazines. If you have a deeper understanding and knowledge about smaller franchises and releases know for a fact that you a privileged because most people didn't have the same faith.