Nope, misanthrope here.

Humans just fucking suck.

They have to kill and eat and 'fix' everything that comes in their way.

I didn't like people just as much when I was forced to interact with them more than I am now, I'd just argue it's easy to not rely on others nowadays.

From my personal anecdotal evidence, yeah, to an extent. I live in the States and a lot of our culture is pretty toxic. I had to find a few non-toxic, non-misanthropic groups to hang out with to reverse my misanthropy. Moving out of a conservative state helped a lot. Prior, I'd end up hanging out with other reluctantly socializing misanthropes who repeated prevalent toxic behaviors. It always resulted in a lot of unnecessary drama and hurt feelings.

Society atomized, third place dismantled. As an adult it's difficult to meet new people and form deep relationships. There are services that ostensibly help you do that, whose real mission is the same old thing - profit maximizing. So they all enshittify and become toxic and manipulative.

It's difficult to not be misanthropic.