My dad was part of the grunge scene; he said it was amazing, but obviously with the hubris and ignorance of youth, they didn’t realize what they had until it was gone. To my surprise he, along with presumably many others of his generation, never really made the connection and somewhat evolution of noisy 80s punk rock to the grunge sound/aesthetic(i.e Wipers influence on Kurt Cobain’s lyricism and style). I think that’s a relatively new retrospective insight for a lot of Gen X unless they were really into the scene