Yep, this is very much true. The internet has made it much, much easier for people to have access to all the current shows of the TV season over in Japan, whereas there's probably lots of "unseen" anime from the late 80's to the late 90's that people have either barely seen or never heard of, because they weren't aired on widely accessible television in other countries like some of their contemporaries were. (Example, ask the average person if they know what Sailor Moon is, then ask them if they know what Saint Tail or Wedding Peach are.)

So obviously the stuff brought over here in the pre-Crunchyroll/YouTube era that we were exposed to is going to be considered "classic" by most folks and critics, whereas there's not really anything within the last, say, 3 years that truly stands out the way that Sailor Moon, DBZ, InuYasha, et al do (maybe 'Attack on Titan', but that's about it).