You know a generation is spoiled when they are complaining
And I thought I was the grumpy one. 
Let's all get back to magnetic core memory, you could get 1K (bytes) in only a two foot square frame. You could program them an infinite number of times and they were none volatile.
Let's hope that Atmel have improved their flash since 2002 when we found in tests that the flash would only take 250 rewrites before failing. Mind you in those days they didn't quote an actual figure they just said "thousands"