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The fact that she's commenting on a "Best of List" compiled in 2011 is irrelevant (and yes, I read the article). The titles weren't voted on in a vacuum by people who only nominated books they read in recent years. Like the authors who were products of their time, the readers were voting with memories from the time they first read those books.
Favorites are favorites--nostalgic or otherwise. Being disappointed in other peoples favorites is silly. Especially when books that DO fulfil your expectations are readily available.
If she wants to see a "Best of all Time" list that contains more works that reflect the attitudes/sensibilities of the SFF genre today... then she needs to wait twenty years or so. That's when new readers of today will look back fondly on the works that molded their tastes.
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