Same here, except I took about ten years on my repayment schedule, and my total debt (this was over 30 years ago) was under $10K instead of the $32K or so that the average graduate today has to deal with.
The average college student loan debt per borrower is, as I said, something like $32K, and the median debt amount is $17K. Not six figures. (That’s because students whose families are non-wealthy enough to require loans are usually getting other forms of financial aid as well, rather than paying full sticker price for tuition, room and board.)
There are indeed far too many former students struggling under that kind of crippling debt, but most graduates are dealing with a far more modest amount.
Personally, I never felt in the least ill-used about being expected to commit to paying some (about 10%, in my case) of the cost of my own college education. If parents can afford to pick up the whole tab and choose to do so, that’s great.
But I wouldn’t criticize even a wealthy parent who required their kid to take on a small amount of their own college costs in the form of student loan debt. Adults, even young adults, even ones from wealthy families, shouldn’t automatically expect to get their way paid for them 24/7/365 the way they did when they were little.