Blimey, another one of these threads? We get one every four or five months, each one always bemoaning how much worse things have vecome. I am amazed we ever find any lower to go, on that basis.
Fact is, of course, that that is an ilusion. Certain people don't like change from the point they joined, and so always see things as being worse in general, meanwhile the next generation is enjoying themselves, and then in six months will post about how bad it has become, whilst another generation is enjoying themselves etc.
This is at least the sixth time I have seen a thread like this. I have been here over three years, and there have been the most enormous changes- that is just the way it works.
Dunno what this about Star Wars being dead is, though. That is about as factually untrue as you can get- it's on its highest level for years.