I share your sentiment. Whenever I visit a chain restaurant that used to be fantastic, I'm always disappointed with the quality. I used to think that it was due to my age and not realizing how subpar the food was when I was younger. However, I now believe that the pandemic and the passage of time have undoubtedly diminished the quality of food in restaurants overall. Additionally, I don't think it was ever as excellent as I remember because, at the age of 12, I didn't have any point of comparison to compare it against a genuinely great restaurant.

The quality of Comcast's service depends on location. If the wiring in the area is good and the headend is not over-subscribed, latency will be good and bandwidth will be acceptable. However, Fios uses fiber, which means that the connection quality to the headend will either be perfect or not working at all, unlike coax which is susceptible to electronic interference and degradation due to aging of copper infrastructure.

In my region near the airport, Verizon seems to be over-subscribing the headends. As a result, my download bandwidth has decreased over the years. Despite being on the one gig plan, I usually only get 300-500 megs down, but I get 1 gig up.

On the other hand, my neighbor has a business plan from Verizon and pays a bit more than I do on the residential package. However, they get a solid 1G.

It's surprising that if a car is parked illegally for a few days, it will be towed and impounded, yet a boat parked in the wrong place for months can't be moved. You would expect the Army Corps of Engineers to take action to ensure safety.