Opinions like that come from a place of ignorance, pure and simple.
Certainly ignorance about more modern music but people like that also usually aren't particularly knowledgeable about the older music as well. They just like what was easily available to them back then (so basically the mainstream of the day) due to nostalgia.
I mean, people who are truly curious about music and like to explore all kinds of different stuff wouldn't usually just stop at some point in time, they'd know about all the cool **** being done in all subsequent decades.
(There are of course also the Le Wrong Generation types but most aspects of what I'm talking about apply to them as well.)
Obviously there's nothing wrong with liking mainstream music but there's also the fact that the mainstream of the seventies was very different from the mainstream nowadays due to today's music being so incredibly diverse and there being so many niches and the main stream being more of a very narrow trickle (doesn't mean there's no great mainstream pop today, of course) because of that.
Not being able to acknowledge that, as well as not acknowledging their own biases (nostalgia, survivorship bias etc.) is silly as ****. Nothing wrong with liking a particular era more than another but coming somewhere where people really know and care about music and proclaiming those silly absolute statements makes them deserving of all the flak they get.
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