Agree, it does feel different, L_P.
I suspect the difference is that the ceiling before felt like tier two of the EL, and was cyclically achieved; yet now it feels like tier 3, no matter how the cloth is cut tier 2 would in no way be sustainable. Perhaps that then is the real long term cost of financial foul play and the regime, perfectly competent, which has had to follow.
Don't quite get the bit about respect - Leeds, Charlton, Coventry are clearly badly run but are their team/city/fans disrespected? Perhaps by the (increasing?) 1% or so of fans who daydream of footballl wage structures, club company accounts and stadium developments. But for the 99 it's still broadly about what happens on the pitch isn't it. And I don't recall much beef with, say, any of those three; and would gladly play them. Not Forest Green.