Predicting 20yrs from now isn't really a thing. In the 80s all we had was fear about nuclear war, missile crisis, 3 mile island. The fear of life being wiped out at any minute from nukes was intense. Everyone thinks they have it so hard, but all we can compare to is hard data and by every possible metric the 60-80s were far more difficult than the yr 2000+ crowd.
If anything GenX hit the absolute sweet spot. Dawn of the tech revolution, cell phones invented when they were teens and the Internet, it was a boom time of luxury and the 3% interest rates were norm. My kids, GenX also stand to soon inherit significant wealth