There are some definite legitimate complaints about overreach of technology and misapplication that causes societal problems, but also it seems intertwined with the "grumpy old man who thinks these newfangled changes are bad".
Speaking to the second, I think everyone has their own Matt Curve on specific things - given the Apple example, IMO the start of the "good" peak was 2005 - MacOS 10.4, and kept getting better through 2011, until the release of 10.7, which started pulling things from iOS (contacts and calendar suck now, but at least they have woodgrain?) and a general dumbing down of the platform. They also started pulling features and generally slowly killing their Server platform, which was a compelling offering at the time. But the iPhone money printing machine changed the company, and in ways that were unfortunate for Mac users for a decade or more.
Speaking to the second, I think everyone has their own Matt Curve on specific things - given the Apple example, IMO the start of the "good" peak was 2005 - MacOS 10.4, and kept getting better through 2011, until the release of 10.7, which started pulling things from iOS (contacts and calendar suck now, but at least they have woodgrain?) and a general dumbing down of the platform. They also started pulling features and generally slowly killing their Server platform, which was a compelling offering at the time. But the iPhone money printing machine changed the company, and in ways that were unfortunate for Mac users for a decade or more.