I got the impression that the quality was on a long slow decline from initially nearly professional science quality articles to something not quite as bad as the modern discovery channel.

Surely the mystique evaporates for “popular” publications targeted at people with less experience, but that just means you need to level up what you consume. Physics Today is something to look into today.

The media i want to consume is mostly of the “this was written for people on the level of graduate students, but ones in a different field”. I can’t find a lot of it