It's focused specifically on improvements, so I am not sure it's fair to call it one-sided. I agree that it would be interesting to see the opposite list however.

The point is that most sentiment is one-sided to the negative. The rest of the internet is full of pervasive accounts of how the world has gotten worse.

I agree, it's a silly list. Improvements in consumer technology, no recognition of the larger changes in concentrations of power that have happened concurrently.