I agree as well.
When I was a little girl my mum used to watch it all the time so I grew up with the amusing and larger than life characters, and a few years back I was still watching it (in my late 20s).
It always seemed a lot more amusing than Eastenders, and you had funny characters like Reg Holdsworth, Bet Lynch, Derek and Mavis, Curly Watts and the rest, but now these days its just like every other drama/soap, full of depressing stories, 'glam' youngsters and nothing to set it apart.
Needless to say I've not watched it for a few years now!