Maybe I'm cantankerous by nature and suffering from decline bias, but I do feel that modern fonts are not "as good" as some older ones, e.g. Helvetica, Avenir, Futura, Akzidenz-Grotesk, Century typeface, etc.

I get that they have different priorities because old fonts were print-oriented and modern ones are designed for screen readability but at a pure aesthetic level I feel that the older ones win out.