Money! It is always about money. Back then, labor and materials where cheap and plentiful. Today it is the opposite. All the old growth trees are gone and labor is going into the stratosphere for costs. Most materials are now plastic and they don't look right.
Some companies go about buying old homes to gut for their woodwork and sell at a tidy profit to those with money and a taste for the real stuff.
Skill, cost, greed. Homes are built in weeks now, by many lacking finish carpentry skills, seeking big profit, and we find it acceptable.
Homes back then used to have so much amazing detail. Why is not like that today?
