Being born in '82 I mostly feel the same as the OP. My only disagreement is that I really fondly remember the early internet days (early as in more and more households had access to it), talking around the mid to late 90's. One of the first games I played online was Worms 2, and talking with the other player who happened to be in Europe was a mind boggling experience, and I had just as much fun talking with someone from a country across the world, as I did playing the game. Not to mention, 13-14 year old me getting introduced to the wild world of online porn will forever be a memorable thing lol. I do agree that for video games that it also started the trend of instant gratification, where people would look things up online (probably via GameFAQs) instead of figuring it out themselves, or talking with buddies playing the same thing.
I feel it all really went down hill when social media blew up, along with having 24/7 access to the internet with a device you constantly carry around with you (usually to get on social media). Even worse is that some of the social media apps (looking right at TikTok here) seems to condition ADD, where if the already short 30 second video doesn't instantly grab the viewer's attention, its a swipe to the next one. I have a coworker in his early 20's that you can tell when he is on it, because you can see his brain shut off as he swipes repeatedly until a video can get his attention in the first 3 seconds. Granted my opinion of that may be an old man yelling at a cloud thing, and I fully admit that lol, but my other coworker (who is my age) and I have often said we swear that shit conditions its users to have ADD tendencies.
There is a lot of good with the bad though nowadays though, Google maps is a godsend and I would never want to use something like MapQuest again, online ordering has really made getting things convenient (although at the cost of local businesses admittedly), and while I loathe 99% of what social media has devolved into, I do like that it has helped me keep in touch and reconnect with old classmates, friends, and family. All in all though, I do often miss the pre-to early internet age, and think all of our old men life outlooks are much better because of those times.