Not surprised about Binghamton. NYS has been putting a lot of money into building and renovating dorms there. At least in part connected with their plan to materially increase enrollment .The dorms I saw were reasonably nice. Not any nicer than my D2s Collegetown dorm at Cornell, which clearly was renovated at some point,but not any worse either.
What people were complaining about more at Binghamton were the other buildings: classrooms, etc.
On every campus there are more recently renovated and less recently renovated dorms.
I’m too lazy to look, but one may wonder how carefully that Niche sample of students was taken from each school. Using Cornell for example, If they got disproportionate input from students in the old dorms they would get lots different results than if students in the recently built West Campus dorms were sampled at a higher rate. To get accurate results you need sampling done properly, else its just GIGO. Also there is no unified standard of satisfaction across schools. Cornell students complain about everything. They are big whiners.
( Not saying the results are wrong either, how would I know).