The only thing we haven’t had is a mess like the Fail Mary. Outside of that, I’d argue that the current refs are actually worse than the replacement refs.

Easy to forget how bad the replacements were 10 years later

I think you are massively understating or just forgetting how awful the replacement refs were. As bad as things are now, it was at a whole other level. It was so bad that within a month of the season, the NFL gave them almost literally everything they wanted.