The job was better post 89 than before. Much more professional flight ops. Not so much old school nonsense 'ol boy.
Whatever are you referring to ? I can't recall any "old school nonsense".
If the tone post-89 was superior to the earlier model, then you enjoyed a very much higher standard than other comments had suggested previously.
I think that most of us were just glad that some of the close shaves did not result in accidents.