As someone who sympathizes with the parent, I think it's mostly a lament for a lost favorite hangout. What happened to the internet, for me, feels like when a local restaurant gets featured on diners drive ins and dives and suddenly you can't just walk in and sit down, if you get a table it's too loud and crowded to enjoy, they can't function on just the usual staff so they hire a bunch of asshole hipster waiters that ignore you, and the food quality wavers. The internet got popular. The people who remember it before it was ubiquitous miss what it was and are disappointed by what it became.