Rompe,
It's also quite possible that those who were raised in the 60s-80s had a lot more insight and training on Vatican II: not the Vatican II workover done more recently by the neocons who want to rewrite history, but from the history as it was being made.

Many of us saw what was possible in the church.  Many of us heard the call from the bishops to take accountability for our own spiritual lives, and to not let others make our decisions for us.  Many of us felt the excitement that coursed through the church, read what the theologians were saying, listened to those who were there.  If nothing else, a takeaway of seeing what could be possible in the church was a powerful, life affecting kind of moment in our lives.

So the church since then has been a rather large disappointment.  We saw what could and should be.  Alas, the efforts to smother all of that have also snuffed out a LOT of individuals as well.