This has been fun to read. Boomer here, so was already close to retirement when I found the blog.
Boomers are as variable as any other age group, for money, social attitudes, etc. And for you young'uns, we also lived through times of high unemployment (why do you think so many of us went to grad school?), massive high interest rates (19% mortgages) when personal finance books had mortgage tables that started at 7% - and they needed mortgage tables because there were no personal computers to do the math for you. The internet has made a huge difference, there was no easy access to the stock market (financial advisors and your bank were the gatekeepers), mutual funds were rare.
BTW, people were complaining at least 3 years ago that the forums were getting soft.
Also btw, while I am being a grouchy older lady, Americans (largest single group on this forum) complain like mad about health insurance costs, but the rest of their COL is so low compared to many other places (Canada, the UK and Australia come to mind) that if they are making a decent salary they should have the money for premiums. And of course we pay for our health care, the premiums are part of our taxes. We look at things like house prices, food costs, electricity, etc., convert it into our currency, and gasp at how low they are!