Yes Elise flying has changed for the worse. Everyone believes they are special and need not concern themselves with those trivial rules like one overhead bag (two on Alaska) that needs to fit into the test box by the check-in counter.  They need to stay on their cell phone just a bit longer after they have been asked to turn them off.  Certainly they can not be expected to hold a conversation load enough to bring the entire load of passengers  up to date with their latest medical procedure.  As soon as the aircraft touches down they have to stand up and force the pilot to stop the aircraft movement on the ground until they decide to sit down.  Need I say more?

I do a lot of air travel in locations around the world. Enough to know that on most foreign airlines passengers are not as unruly as I find on flight across America.  Perhaps it is a matter that we seem to live in a society where everyone is special and the old acceptable levels of decorum have faded into oblivion.