For a time, we all ignored the way 100 years of history told us it was supposed to happen, and bought the conceit that with hard work and modern training players could, and should, experience exponential gains as they hit 33, 36, even 39.
To the outsider's eye these complaints tend to display a high degree of pettiness and conceit, as with the applicant for a medical job with the commission who argued that his non-hiring was explicable only by a prejudice on the commission's part against Swedish medical qualifications.