I’ve been out of the game for about a year, I got exhausted of perpetual hype and all of the Universes Beyond stuff. I don’t mind the occasional set like that, but getting more non-Magi IP sets/releases in a year than in-universe ones is too much IMO
That, plus WotC printing mostly for commander and/or ruining modern with MH2&3.
It probably doesn’t help that I hate the “free to play” gaming model, and so I refuse to get Arena.
I really used to like classic cards like Serra Angel and Shivan Dragon and I don’t know exactly when they became so bad, but I couldn’t even consider playing them now in most formats.
I believe Throne of Eldraine in 2019 was the set where power creep started accelerating most.
It was definitely Throne of Eldraine (Oko was a mistake!) where things just got crazy, but War of the Spark did not help by dumping like 50 other new planeswalkers into the pool and giving them statics.
I am out of play by many, many years, but man, people threw a big fit back when we got Phyrexian poison counters saying they were OP as fuck. I am not nerd enough to know where it stands relative to the games entire span of cards, but that was definitely a thing. I recognize that’s not a format, but I mostly just played the standard 60 card format. I wound up leaving the game just as commander decks started (fun format tho, but I was done by then.)