I think that's the thing nowadays with the new way of doing bookings or any other related stuffs, it's so smooth and fast that we don't even have to partake in the experience. Somehow, I like the old ways better but have to adapt with the changing times :)
I too have that feeling on missing out on the experience at times but then some of those times were also so painful and we wished for easier ones and here we are now in to it and asking for the older ones......I guess we humans are too complicated :-)
Very complicated lol. We change like the weather, very unstable.