People build much worse houses now, from aesthetic perspective.
No matter where I go, I usually prefer to live in a city center because that's where the most pleasing houses are.
We forgot how to build nice houses. Sad.
I think it is not only about worse, better. Standardize the process, like a talking in engineering language, building/improving debates. Also open projects as for me have own style, feels like Ikea really.
I write top-to-bottom code almost always. And prefer not to have separate functions if I don't need them. Here is the real example I'm building CRM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4QjeBEkNLc