Reality is that 10% salary pension premiums will not buy you a pension pot worth pissing in. Anyone can do the maths. It's nothing to do with 80's: it's to do with what a respectable employer will construct for its erstwhile much regarded and revered high paid employees. I was a lucky one, but there are many others.
The message is don't let the wool be pulled over your eyes; it covers up the rose tinted glasses.