Y'all do realize that they're also being forced fed WAY more information by the second then any of us had to take in while we were growing up?
You go talk to someone who grew up in a rural area with minimal Internet activity and they'll have the same memory recall as older eras of humans.
And they may just not give a fukk about what they look like

it's not a necessary part of the sport
AND as time moves forward, more "history" exists, there's gonna be a point where it's gonna be fukking impossible to expect a young person to retain all this fluff data y'all want them to know, history is a snowball, y'all had it easier back then than they do now