You're right. We are at the beginning of an exciting new era, yet some people are whining about the good old days when the federal government led the way, and space travel was so expensive and inefficient that only a few could go.
Spacex tested a new engine yesterday that is the most efficient booster engine ever built by anyone, the Merlin 1D.
Typical New Space propaganda crockery. Some bozo replicates what is basically a Soviet-era "Progress" mission to the ISS and suddenly he's Zephram Cochrane unveiling the warp drive.