I think it's the other way around. Comment reads like an idealistic middle aged person idea to me. I don't know anyone under 30 who wouldn't immediately mock it.
Let's look at what students who have lived under both systems over the course of this pandemic are really saying. For the most part, they feel much more engaged with in person instruction.
If so, then the olders thing the assertion is naive and the youngers thing the olders have stale ideas.
And the world keeps spinning, somehow amusingly as before.