well ofc, the older generation laid the foundations for great replay makers.

If you look wayy back when in say 2008 or 2009 (farthest I've seen), the replays aren't really special, considering what today's replays look like.

Its because back then that was the standard of replay making, but a few of them decided to push the boundaries and do some crazy bat shit replays. People got inspired by that and continued to push the envelope into what it is today.

we can see the community getting better and better as more and more people join this once exclusive org, and now more are in than every before. We even had to raise the standard here at some point, because people are learning too quickly.

its like how people celebrate scientists who revolutionized their respective fields, even though scientists today are probably much more knowledgeable than scientists of centuries ago, the ones from way back when will remain as legends for doing what they did for the scientific communities and its no different in toribash imo. If it wasn't for people pushing the limits of toribash, replay making would not be as good as it is today