No doubt, SAS has stayed in the past. My latest international flight with them was the first Saturday in October - from Frankfurt to Oslo. The Boeing 737-600 was filled to the rim and many passengers didn't get on board at all (heavily overbooked?). The best comparison from the past is an utterly chaotic overbooked late afternoon flight I had with United Shuttle from ORD to EWR in the 1990s. On board the United flight I did get both free drinks and a chicken dinner, but not the same on board the SAS flight. I did buy an expensive dried out turkey sandwich that didn't have any turkey on it and bottle of water. The free tea tasted like hot brown tap water.
Compared with the three other segments I had on this Star Alliance trip to Nice, SAS fell through compared with Lufthansa and Swiss. No doubt, my next trip to Nice will be with Swiss only; flying with them is a real joy.