I am with you, but im just looking at it pragmatically as well over those 50 years..... I'm a similar age so know, I feel the same to a degree.
70's were great from what i can remember.
80's we survived going under and get ourselves back to league 1 and a league cup semi
90's- yo yoed between league 1 and championship, well mainly league one very frustrating decade .
Then 2000s - it got brighter, infrastructure build, as we had a an old tired ground and poor training facilities and got back to the 2nd tier.
Now an established championship team.
I have a similar feel at the moment as I did in the 90s trying to get out of L1. We have changed manager a few times trying to fix that, so IMO all we can do is back LM for a prolonged spell like we did with NPand just hope "it happens". We are not going down so let's see where we finish. "If" we finish 8th to 11th I think it will give us some hope bring some positivity going in to the summer.