Perhaps younger people think of the current generation as reckless idiots?
- fly a plane with fuel gauges that don't work because of poor engineering
- fly an engine where the mixture is always wrong when it doesn't block itself with ice. Who would want to fly that?
- imagine, they kept busting airspace because their compass rotated in the wrong direction 10 degree an hour!
I won't be so sure young people are wrong - remember, we fly and present utter junk to them and expect them to take to it. Next time you're bring up someone up in a Cessna or Piper twice their age with broken plastic and home made labels saying 'Autopilot U/S since 1980' imagine the impression it leaves.
The next generation is usually the wiser one, not us. We need to improve the cosmetics and optics of our aircraft.