Is it possible we are just temporarily distracted by all the amazing advancements that have developed in a very short period of time? New technology is very fun and exciting for most people. There may come a time when this always-on, constantly updated tendency has lost a bit of its luster and we will get down to business with tools that are multitudes more powerful than those our parents had.
To get around that I just added the following to my bashrc
alias remote_host="ssh -t bastion ssh -t host1 ssh host2"