Are modern cars becoming too.. accomplished?

[saff]

So I recently booked a range rover as a hire car and was disappointed to turn up to a 2 series grand tourer being prepared for me.. But after a week of driving, I was pleasantly surprised. It picked up very well given the smaller engine options and larger size of the thing, build quality was in my opinion very solid, and it was loaded to the eyeballs with options, from the leather, to the million-way customisable electronics. It handled extremely well for such a car and was a comfortable place to be in comfort mode. Not only that, with me trying to wring the neck out of it it still returned around 45mpg getting 600 miles or so ( I think, I' more accustomed to kms these days) from a 40 pound tank. But then it struck me, the whole experience, in a stretched, twisted way, was reminiscent of the M4 I had driven a week before. Obviously in any realm of performance you can't read too much in to that statement - but in terms of the general 'feel' of the two machines. Then I got thinking of the A45AMG that I drove some time ago, through to a boxster S, F type and even things like well equipped focuses and corollas and HSV commodores (VXR8's). It sounds mad, obviously they all drive differently, but does anyone else get the feeling that due to the general standard of cars about today, that it's starting to mean that it's difficult to come across a car that 'feels' special to drive? It's as if cars are all generally so compliant around town that you really have to push to the limits to start drawing distinctions whereas 10 years ago I could jump in something like an mx5, z4m, cayman, vantage and arrive smiling ear to ear. Guess it's just progression, but after shopping around for a change in car recently, I struggled to come across something that genuinely had the same feel of excitement or character at a moderate or fast road pace. The quality gap from a holden to a merc is at an all time low albeit still a gap, and it feels almost like around town and even on the a road hoon, cars are starting to be accomplished to the point of blandnessness. Or have I had a shandy too many?