I'll echo what some others have said:
Real life just provides less reliable free time than it did when I was in my teens. On live I would group for hours on end, but now I might only get an hour or two to play during what are typically off-hours. And even then, I might have to leave for some household responsibility at a moment's notice.
What I would love is to have others who I know in real life to group with, but for anyone who never played back in the day, it's a hard sell to convince them to slog through a 20-year old game.
There's also the feeling of, "Well, I could join this group but I'm in such an unreliable place that I would probably be a hindrance rather than an asset."
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