In any case, people don't get much happier as things get better. Conveniences start out cool and then become mere vehicles to allow you to worry about something else. And specifications for a world are essentially conveniences. Big, impossible, physical and psychological conveniences, but still conveniences. We're wired to perceive contrasts.
Absolutes mean nothing out of context.
Once a thing becomes the mean, our only capacity to appreciate it at its mean level is in terms of the past. Cold comfort for most. Things will not make me happy. Better than 50th percentile. That's the only way I understand good.