>>10911862exactly, they probably have nostalgia for an era during which they weren't even watching anime. Because great anime got released far and few between you had to wade through the masses of mediocre and bad anime if you wanted to watch anime you hadn't seen before. Today that isn't the case, there are more good anime per season being released. And that's not even touching on the fact that you now have a much bigger library of past anime to go back to if you wanted to.
Magic users club wasn't even bad. It's stuff like "Eiken", "Endsky" and "the cosmopolitan prayers" (yes, I know there's bad anime now, that's not the point). That's not even touching on the mass of low mediocre anime. (love hina is definitely on that list for me as well as LoveLess). It's also much easier to avoid watching even one episode of bad anime today because of how much more free coverage there is on new anime.