Edh golden age format

I think the majority of people here would agree that edh right now is in a very bad place. Power creep, autoinclude cards, power brackets, overpricing, etc. moreover recently I am not having a lot of fun playing.

What was the golden era of edh in your opinion? When you were having the most fun?

I was wondering to propose to my friends to ban newer cards. What would be the cutoff set in your opinion?

To me it could be thrones of eldrain. That was when I start noticing the rise of power creep, auto include and so on.