Sure, and it's not just football...there are many other socio-economic factors that have changed the relationship between people, and business....and how that relationship is loaded. Back then, most football clubs were not businesses in that sense. They were dependent on their local communities for support and finance, as part of a cyclical symbiotic relationship. Now they are not. For me that is worth less. Not more. YMMV.
There were definitely things that needed to happen in football to turn it into a modern safe entertainment event. The move to that didn't have to be driven the way it was. I do strongly regret that communities have so passively ceded their stake in their community football clubs, and that as a society, through our governance, we made football the enemy, not embracing it as part of us. We don't believe in society, and the football community was sold down the river. It is now unusual to have a real tangible link with much of the staff at the football club of your perversion, rare to be treated as anything but a customer, having little to no say over the direction chosen by owners. Owners who don't really need you. Owners with no link to the community that birthed and nurtured the football club, and little real commitment to that club other than as a vehicle for prestige, the movement of money, and establishing a legitimate financial bridgehead.
The community has mostly become peripheral to the operation of the football club. That's not what football was built on, and it's not an emotional framework that works for me. I can enjoy and admire the football actions on the pitch but a lot of the important surrounding feels have gone. Why not watch 'the best' football on the telly from Saudi Arabia, when the actual relationship with your 'ship club of choice is actually, in reality, not that much different?