True. They got us used to no permission to buy light bulbs with regular tungsten filaments, and forcing us to use narrow small stream aerators for faucets, limiters on toilet flushes, and those plastic bags for bagging vegetables and fruits which are now so thin they tear while you struggle to separate them at the display in a grocery store.
A small former shopping center near here once had a supermarket,restaurant and maybe five stores. Sold to a developer. Bulldozed (after 3 years of court counter battles and his emergence from bankruptcy) and now built up with identical buildings of four storey pale washed out green cinder block buildings in rows.
A neighbor who once lived in Poland said they looked just like the Soviet bloc government housing. Drab, depressing and uniform. Tomorrow's America, sadly.