do you miss the 1990s?

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Yes. Things were so much cooler. It was easier to talk to people. People were generally happier.
People weren't jaded, cynical, and edgy.

I miss the last two years of it. The rest can die in a fire.

Well, the 90's do have their own ups and downs, but yes, I really do miss it. Even with some things that have improved nowadays, the 90's were more peaceful, simpler, and cooler than today's world. :p

The 80's had well made music in the pop charts..
The 90's was like electronic dance music for people on drugs, mediocre indie music, grunge
.. which seemed good at the time but I don't listen to it now

I recall some opposition to the synths cos they were not 'real instruments' but they sounded good and complimented the songs back then.
Dont remember anyone saying synth music is for druggies

The 1990s is overrated. Most people only idolize the 90s because they were small children at the time. I was born in the 70s so I mostly only remember stuff like watching the Muppet Show and listening to my Chipmunks Punk records and being surrounded by second-hand smoke constantly. I don't remember all the "unrest" of that decade. And when people say "Oh the 90s were the best" it makes me feel literal pain and cringe. I was legally a young adult in the 90s so I remember all the fear-mongering. I had horrible anxiety and was in constant fear of the world ending because of Y2K and other things.

The reason the present is so horrible and there's no future because people keep their heads stuck in the past and view with their nostalgia goggles on too tight.

Yes, because I was a small child throughout the whole 1990s (was born in 1990 and turned 10 in 2000).

It was a nice decade, because we had the technology but it didn't dominate our lives like it does now.

Political correctness became even and made sense to everybody, meaning it wasn't one extreme or the other.

TV was good too. Often Saturday nights had some brilliant shows for all people of all ages. Now it's absolute nonsense. Kids shows were great back then too. Now it seems that the Karens are in charge of how kids shows should be.
I watched Tom & Jerry when I was a kid but it never influenced me to be cruel to animals, but these days people don't let their kids watch anything with even the slightest bit of violence or fart jokes or scary stuff or dangerous stuff or anything - even though there's far worse stuff on the internet kids can get exposed to than a cartoon.

Also health and safety has gone way over the top. When I was a kid every waiting-room had a rocking horse. Now apparently the rocking horse is dangerous and has been banned because parents are now given the right to sue any company if their kid is hurt. Back in the 1990s there were reasonable health and safety policies in place but we weren't wrapped in cotton wool.

Considering the animation industry is headed back to the '80s landscape when only recognizable and popular brands or celebrities got new cartoon shows, yes.

Originality is dying unless you can find success with independent.