Two decades ago I heard composer David Shire talk about how we are conditioned to expect electronic amplification by TV, movies, CDs (in those days), etc. He argued that so-called "natural" sound no longer seems natural to our ears. I think he's right, in most cases.
* I put "natural" in quotes above because projecting to the rear wall of a theater is no more natural than using a mike. It may not be mechanically amplified, but it is hardly everyday speech.
I think Shire was too polite to say it, but a case can also be made that most of us have forgotten how to listen carefully enough to hear stage dialogue that isn't electronically amplified. It does occur to me that a lot of today's bad behavior (see that long thread) might not have occurred when everyone was listening intently to hear unmiked actors. But objecting to electronic amplification nowadays is pushing the river, I'm afraid.