It's... consumer fireworks have been a thing as long as I was little. And when I was little, I would be out with fireworks from until they started selling them up until after midnight on New Year's Eve, just one kaboom after the other.
But people that have trouble with that (scared dogs, or lung problems with smoke) + the grumpy people that are generally annoyed at the sounds are getting more and more vocal each year.
And it's these people that are muddying the discussion around it as well: No one has numbers on how many injuries are e.g. because of illegal fireworks vs. legal fireworks, …