Your old textbooks are probably better too. I remember when I was taking high school chemistry, the then-current textbooks were awful with garish boxes of blocks of colour taking up half the page, font changes, screaming blurbs, etc.
I went to a store and bought the previous older edition of the textbook which was still the same material but without the fad of making everything visually distracting. It is very refreshing to just be able to read a normal flat white page with normal black, blue and red ink.
Yeah. I haven't seen much in the way of modern textbooks but what I have seen tends to be full of garbage. Back when I was in school I couldn't stand used textbooks because they would contain someone else's highlighting and I found that very disruptive. I hate predigested garbage!
We are not alone in that. My wife has some reference books in Chinese that I believe date from the 80s. They are printed on some rather cheap materials. She was trying to find some new ones--and has failed completely. I can't read them, let alone evaluate the usefulness, but she was appalled at what she found and continues to use her taped-together stuff.
I went to a store and bought the previous older edition of the textbook which was still the same material but without the fad of making everything visually distracting. It is very refreshing to just be able to read a normal flat white page with normal black, blue and red ink.