For real. I remember that despite our best efforts discs would get scratched occasionally, and try keeping those disks pristine with kids. That mechanical drive was also a common and expensive point of failure that's guaranteed to wear out eventually because of those moving parts.

It's not all sunshine and rainbows, but I think there's a tendency to glorify the past and hyperfocus on the disadvantages. We forget that there were parts of the past that really sucked.