I think that's the point of Tolkien writing Tom that way. Peaceful happy times often feel exactly like that. Reading it as a child it felt really boring but looking back on it now. The best times in life are often quite predictable, consistent and filled with people talking about quite normal boring things. That when you're a child you kinda take for granted. Civilized society is honestly magical compared to the barbaric nature of most human history. I think the magic of Bombadil is revealed when you have the patience. Tom is the contrast from that last safe part of the world to the rest of the dark dangerous one.

There's a reason the saying "may you live in interesting times" is a known curse.

It's the problem of scarcity IMO. The human brain isn't built to compute the scale of our world. We've built an economic model not designed to handle shocks to the system due to people over buying resources out of fear.

Many right wingers view this as a positive. They want to eradicate trans people.

It's being used to carry freight cargo. They've been building them for air freight shipping for a while now. So no worries, unless you're a package, you'll be fine.