I don't complain about gaming industry today but i miss playstation 1 era.
The reason is that because you didn't need big budgets you could make unique games and experiment more easily.
I still remember the pleasure i felt playing games like Devil's Deception, Clock Tower, Broken Sword, Abe's Odyssey, Star Ocean, Parasite Eve and many more.
At least we have PC Indies that provide us with some gems quite often.

Yeah, there are plenty of good games out there and stuff coming out all the time. It's just that every major launch is now a political battlefield with extreme polarization. Either gamers love something or the journalists do, and the other side always hates it. It makes the situation feel more volatile than it actually is.
But everyone can make up their own minds today, there's video available. When I was a kid, there was none, and you actually had to buy a magazine and rely on the journalists to tell you if a game was good or not. Although back then, they actually reviewed the game itself, rather than its political sensibilities, which didn't really even exist in games, they were just games. Simpler times.

While it is annoying, culture warring can at least be partially avoided by curating one's social media feed, blocking those who push it, and not giving such bad actors the engagement they crave.

It is nice that nowadays I can go on youtube and watch a game in action or here a wide spectrum of opinions on it, rather than just buying based on brand, what has a cool looking cover, or what a magazine recommends back in the old days.

I personally cannot stand when review scores incorporate political positions.  I don't want politics in my gaming reviews.  There are a few websites I literally no longer go to because of that.  

Nah, even that culture war side is blown out of proportion. As I said, there are releasing >10K games each year. Only a few are getting in the cross-hairs of the culture wars. If you terminally online it may seem like an incessent discussion, but frankly you can live well without social media at all - and then culture war doesn't even blip. So, while it is good to be informed, if it starts to drag you down than a social media detoxification can help.

One thing that is nice about games today is that fewer games are locked to a specific region or left unlocalized.

It wasn't that long ago that a ton of good games never officially left Japan, for example, whereas now in today's more globalized market that's less common.

Back in the 7th gen for example, Fatal Frame 4 never got a proper international release, and to play in in English you needed a modded Wii and a homebrew patch.