Has cheap paint gotten worse?

I used to play a lot 10-15 years ago and just started trying to get back into the sport. Guns, tanks, hoppers, ect have all gotten far better, but at least for me paint seems like it's worse. I'm talking specifically about field paint and 1 or 2 "star" paint. The kind that you are either forced by many fields to shoot or the type that you can affordably buy in bulk for a team.

Back in the day, cheap paint would bounce but it would still shoot straight. Ever since I came back though, accuracy seems to have just become unachievable. I've tried different guns, barrels and bore sizes, all to still be unable to hit long and medium shots ojn a standard NXL-sized field.

My local fields (Orlando area) all use GI Sportz field paint and I've used multiple batches of it without success. I got ahold of Pro-Shar Exact Ball and Skirmish (1 and 2 "star") that a lot of teams in the area are using and it actually broke on targets a little better, but it still shot all over the place.

I'm posting this as a sanity check more than anything else. Am I going blind, am I misremembering the old days, or has low tier paint actually gotten worse over time?