I'd already provided some examples but to clarify:
It WAS much more affordable for a 30 year old to buy a house in the 70s to the early 2000s than it is today. Every single statistic you can look at (house price to salary ratio, most common living arrangements for young adults, percentage of take home pay spent on housing).
Again, I'm not gen Z. I'm not even a millennial. I'm at the young end of gen X.
But it's essential - as a society - to acknowledge the above. The goalposts have been well and truly moved and it's wildly shit for anyone trying to not just put down roots but just live now unless they bought a decade or so ago or more.
I'm personally sick of the gaslighting younger people face when they're told to cancel Netflix and stop eating avocados in order to buy a four-bed house in Surrey. Absolute insanity.
I agree it's totally unhelpful to say "young people are snowflakes" (for what it's worth I've never found Gen Zs or Millennials to be "judgemental", quite the contrary) or "older people had it easy", especially, as you say, women (as well as ethnic minorities) had a shit deal in the workplace and in wider society. It is also a distraction. Completely. I accept that.
However I'm always staggered that more people can't understand why Gen Z and the younger millennials are furious and striking out when people from different generations whinge about them having a smart phone or daring to go to Spain for 3 nights.
Gen Z have done (as a cohort level, again) everything "right": better performance at school than ever before, more of them going to university than ever before, better grades than ever before, a million extra curricular activities just to get a place on a competitive course or apprenticeship, selling their souls to get crap unpaid internships. They're far less likely to drink or smoke or do drugs than my age group was; we (as a cohort, again, not everyone) pissed our money up the wall!
That is before we even consider the 50k debt (min) someone needs to get into to become a primary school teacher (which didn't even need a degree 30ish years ago). And yet the most common living arrangement for 18 to 34 year olds is "with parents". Twenty-five years ago it was "couple with children".
Meanwhile society is telling these young women that their biological clock is ticking.
Among all of that there are millionaires who are 25 and so of course this doesn't apply to them because, again, we're talking about cohorts here. Just as saying "it was easier to buy a home in the 80s than it is now" doesn't apply to an Orgreave miner or a woman who fled domestic violence with just the clothes on her back.
Yes, gen Zs are largely directing their anger at the wrong people. That's true.
But as the generations that have gone before it's remiss of us not to acknowledge the housing crisis and the income crisis faced by younger people en masse. The least we can do is not gaslight them into thinking the reason they can't afford even a room in a shared house let alone to buy a place is avocados and laziness because it simply isn't true.