I used to go to Boracay (Philippines) or Yangshuo (China) (just 2 small examples) ...long before the tourist masses descended on these places (which are paradises).
Was it better back then and back when? Yes (or maybe no too). For sure, no crowds and no outsiders and only the "in-crowd" who maybe even knew about these places.
But that also meant no roads, no electricity, no air-co, no diversity of food, tough travelling to get there, bad accommodation and just roughing it, having to do it all by yourself etc. I have no right to "claim" these places for myself, just because I got there years before mass-tourism was invented, no right to think that these places should forever remain in the way I remember them, before they got "spoiled". Did they even get spoiled? For sure now and it's just so easy and wall-to-wall food, paved roads, ease of access, no sweating-alive if the fan failed, no getting bitten-alive by the mosquito's if then sleeping outside -just convenience (which also means much higher prices too) in quality hotels instead, food everywhere, so many things to do and see as well.
I don't feel entitled just because I used to go to Yangshuo, when everything was still very raw and new and unfamiliar and you really had to make an effort to get there. It was paradise back then and it's still paradise now. Only difference is it was paradise "alone" way back when and now you share it with tens of thousands of others. But you also get the conveniences too, that you maybe craved way back when. So, you lose in one way and maybe gain in another.
Do I long for a time when the water would just cut-out at any moment, or an electric black-out or hours of back-breaking bus rides just to get there? Hell no. But, I did love the very romantic "happy-ending" of being basically being alone in a place of unsurpassed natural beauty. Now instead I love how easy it is to both get to these places and to also enjoy these places fully (accommodation, food and many experiences) and their sheer accessibility ...but I seriously dislike sharing that experience with many thousands of others, of the package tourist variety.
I don't know ...but at some point you probably have (or will have had) the perfect mix of the bare-bones stuff mixed with some more convenience. Before that or after that very small time-frame (and it's usually very, very short) , it maybe goes the wrong way for you. Either too primitive or else too commercial.
That special atmosphere at Anfield was just unique ....but it just came about naturally and it was always very raw and immediate and it even lasted for a shortish time-frame too. Yes, it got re-created for a while mid-00's in a very different way and a more controlled way too (and very orchestrated by then) , but the real rawness and Scouse spontaneousness was long gone by then too. It felt like a tribute to the past (long gone and even then). It was far more a ritual than something that just happened. Now it's even more diluted, yet again. But that's just what happens. It always happens, whenever you commercialize an "experience".
That's just what it is though. I'm just glad that I felt the KOP in full-voice in all of it's primitive and primeval (and heaving) force, but that KOP hasn't been there for more than 2 decades now. The watered-down version was still pretty good though, but even that is showing the effects of 2 decades of pricing your core support (local and working-class) out of the game to the benefits of a more touristy crowd. It is what it is nowadays ...but there are still far worse places out there ;-)