I feel like the Schumacher/Ferrari borefests were a lot less in your face. I watched a lot of them, but man. With all respect to Lewis Hamilton who is a great driver, the problems in F1 are in your face.
I took a random sample of 40 years of F1 winners.
1979: Jacques Laffite, Gilles Villenvue, Patrick Depallier, Jody Scheckter, Jean-Pierre Jabouille, Clay Regazzoni, Alan Jones
1989: Nigel Mansell, Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Theirry Boutsen, Gerhard Berger, Alessandro Nannini
1999: Eddie Irvine, Mika Haikken, Michael Schumacher, Heinz-Harald Frentzen, David Coulthard, Johnny Herbert
2009: Jenson Button, Sebastian Vettel, Mark Webber, Lewis Hamilton, Rubens Barichello, Kimi Raikkonen
2019: Valtteri Bottas, Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc
We were on a consistent pace, even in the Schumacher/Ferrari era compared to now.