Why do people need to perform mental gymnastics for liking a character from an anime, whatever age it is?
If anything, the sphere of anime fans has become more normal but i guess you are on a “everything is becoming shit”-trip. I guess that happens with some people while becoming old.
Sometimes i still by accident (while bored) open a tab of reddit in my brwoser. Realizing with disgust where i went, i close that shit just as fast as i opened it. It is not getting better over there and the percentage of absolute morons grows steadily. It will soon be what facebook is today.