There was never a golden age. Stop acting like your a veteran and relize the game has improved and the community has grown better in some aspects.
It was just a smaller better game back then, a lot of the addons had great quality, sure there is a lot of quantity now, but whatever.
I cant argue that building is better now, good physics, ill give you that.
The more members thing is a tossup, there are more people willing to contribute but also more young children and one of the reasons I said I liked blockland before is it was smaller and I knew a lot of the community.
This is just my opinion, I liked it better before.