[drewcoo]

When was that halcyon time when you knew a subject well and some outlet published a really good in-depth story about it? Maybe it happened, but I don't think it happened in this timestream.

Michael Crichton, of all people, coined the term Gell-Mann Amnesia, possibly describing your reaction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect