It can be difficult to both realize and admit that our taste are changing, especially as we get older. Especially when we realize that the hobby or Pursuit that we have chased so diligently for years just no longer matters to us as much as it did. I think I'm at your stage as well and so far as I like still reading stereophile, but I have no urge to get any of this stuff that I ever see in there even if it's affordable.
And to illustrate this point I guess, a few months ago I rebuilt and refurbished my father-in-law's old pair of coral BX 200 speakers he had gotten when he was in Vietnam. They had been sitting in his garage for decades and he told me to take them and so I did and I restored the cabinets and the facing and replaced and upgraded the crossover and restored the tweeters as best I could and added dampening material and all that jazz and I've had them played in my system now for over a month with my normal reference 3A decapos sitting off to the side and I couldn't be happier.
So it's not a question of sound quality, it's just a question of listening.