WHAT HAPPENED TO BREAD?

Years ago when you ordered toast in a restaurant, or made it at home, it was bread that was darker, warmer, but just as  edible and tasty. Today most bread, when toasted, is dry, hard, and tastes artificial. Why?  Is bread, like most products, made of cheaper ingredients to up the profit margin? That's the only possible answer.  I am guessing if you had an Almond Joy from 1959 and one today, you would be astounded at the difference. Not only would today's be smaller, but it would not be nearly as delicious. The same applies to every product, even cigarettes which probably got so many people hooked because even though they were deadly they were still purer than the super-chemicalized crap they sell today. Profit over purity, that's the rule today. And the distance of time has made it impossible for us to notice or compare. Yes, there are still quality products, but the major of breads, to name one category, despite their rapturous names and package descriptions still pop up as tasteless pieces of edible wood.