Nothing is stopping you from using 30 year old tooling if you think it is better than today's
Specifically, our target environments distance us too greatly from the problem(s) being solved on the main/"happy" path.
Is there a WYSIWYG GUI builder for WWW/Android/iOS as good as Delphi was for win32 or Interface Builder for NeXTSTEP?
If not, then I have to waste a ton of time working on UI boilerplate code instead of the important & fun stuff.
A.k.a. The problems have become harder (stricter requirements, more ambitious objectives), which is entirely different than the tooling having become worse.
The tools themselves are better in so many ways. They just haven't caught up to what we're trying to do with them. Myself, and others, remember fondly when they had.