[OhioLawyerF5]

Never heard of the junk card era. There was a junk wax era. There appears to be a junk slab era, and probably a junk parallel era. But there have always been good cards in all eras.

If you are referring to the junk wax era, yes, it ended long ago. That era was defined by wax where the most expensive card you could pull was a base card with 3 million copies. While there is still a lot of junk in boxes, the inclusion of rare, desirable cards in products, at least leaves open the possibility for something nice in the wax.