There's much more to choose from now than when I was a kid. Maybe it's because it's more accessible but I could only watch what anime was on tv back then unless I convinced my mom to let me rent a DVD from the library. When I started watching it when I was 7 or 8 it was 2012-2013 and I don't remember being able to stream it on the computer the way you can now. Not that I even had unsupervised access to the computer then :v
It's more mainstream too.. More people like it at my age than they did back then so I can talk with more people about anime and that changes the experience for me because you have friends to share it with. I hope it stays popular so more and more people get interested and we have that many more to chat with about it.