This reflected what even younger alums from Oberlin felt when they’ve seen a few touring prospective students and their parents complaining about the “deplorable conditions” of the campus dorms. Similarly, I’ve heard a few Columbia/Barnard students/touring prospective students complain about conditions in the suite style dorms for advanced undergrads and found like those younger alums the complainants were almost always upper/upper-middle class students with exceedingly high expectations set from home environments built on decades of parental hard work and/or in a few cases ginormous inheritances/trust funds.
One concern I have with such complainants is how they’d handle living post-college.
Most fresh/recent college grads’ first apartments are likely to be much more spartan than what Oberlin and many private college dorms offered. And even most of them aren’t likely to be receiving full parental financial support/possessing ginormous trust funds to buy/rent in luxury apartment buildings/condos…especially not in popular urban locales like NYC/Boston.