I do envy them, I was much happier a person when I was more Blue Pilled, but I didn't really Red Pill myself, SJWs did, they decided to pick a fight with guys exactly like me when it wasn't really necessary and here we are.
I tried as hard as I could to be on their side for years and they shit on me at every turn until I finally went "ok, well fuck you too then"
The final turning point for me was when they came for Vic and tried to make anime fandom "Woke", that was truly the straw that broke the camel's back because that was the point it became clear that they literally do want control of 100% everything under the sun, they took the beautiful thing that was anime fandom in the US and ruined it like they ruined everything else (which includes the end of cons due to 'rona lockdowns), it held out the longest, but still fell to the horde and that was when I realized I had nothing to really lose by cutting ties with any Woke communities online.
I do realize that when I wax nostalgic like I do about the 2000s I'm also simply missing the days in which I was more Blue Pilled than missing a time that was subjectively better (though I do honestly think in some ways it was)
If the left had just played it cool they never would have Red Pilled a guy like me but they chose to freak the fuck out and the rest is history.
Meanwhile a literally genocidal political movement is slowly gaining more and more control over society and these morons think The Bachelor is more important than paying any attention to what's really going on.
They're gonna be in for one hell of a surprise.