CTL, I think when Veltz wrote the sentence you quoted he had been hit by a wave of nostalgia for the old days of the CR.
When I stumbled in here almost accidentally, the girls chattering away were mainly on seminary threads. Besides those high school girls terror-stricken by the prospect of a year of academic pursuits, the only other females who consistently posted were a wise grandmother offering encouragement and counsel, an English academician from Haifa checking grammar and spelling (it soon became evident those were not the type of faux pas the Mods were keeping an eye out for), an accomplished balabusta who shared recipes (since she disappeared we get recipes for frozen cholent pops and the like), and yours truly.
The CR, like everything else in life, has changed. I would add the axiom we all know about things saying the same the more they change, but in our case it is untrue.
As we can see from the puzzlement of out fellow posters, CTL & LU, Veltz’s assertion is no longer accurate. Although his use of the word soporific is.