It seems to me that a large part of HN users are over forty. I'm over forty. When I was twenty, every new technology that promised the world was to be believed. Now that I'm over forty, the bar for believing in a new hype is very very high.
This may be more a result of news outlets exaggerating claims, than of actual creative entities themselves overpromising.
The thing is, most Mercedes employees are over forty. So while news outlets might exaggerate, Mercedes doesn't really. They tend to only publish products when they're ready.
But the twenties of today are also wary of many thing that we, the fourtier tech (bearded white males? true in my case) cared about.
"We" built a free, open, internet. Which brought the twentiers mostly surveillance capitalism by a few monopolists. "We" built a system in which companies that seed division can generate trillions of revenue from that. Twentiers (tweens?) rightfully are sceptical about the things I am sceptical about today, but which I rooted for (and spent my energy on) in my twenties.
This may be more a result of news outlets exaggerating claims, than of actual creative entities themselves overpromising.