This is how I feel as well. PC/Mac/Fick have ruined Badgers Football. Though maybe it was going to get ruined anyways with this NIL stuff and a complete lack of continuity.
In the 1990s, 2000s, and probably the first half of the 2010s, I never missed a big game, Badgers or not. I could tell you most of the Badgers 2 deep in any given season and it would be fun to speculate on who might be the next to take that next step. How things are too focused on style over any substance. Our team is lousy and everything feels "fake" to me. As a whole, I think NCAA football is failing. As older milleneals, and Gen Xers get older and have more interesting options in life, I think the "always bigger" TV contracts are going to go the way of the dinosaur, and the current system will collapse.
Outside of the deep south (which sports wise has nothing beyond SEC football), I just see the country viewing CFB is a big "meh". If you take the focus away from building continuity in a program in CFB away, you are left with the NBA G-League, or maybe, at-best, MILB. Nobody pays attention to either of those leagues.