When I was younger, in the people around me, people tended to be more direct and give direct feedback.
As time passed, fewer and fewer people give honest feedback.
It’s a much softer way of living.
On the other hand:
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman