No, we haven’t changed much at all. Just fancier ways of satisfying those same thoughts. XD

Rome has a lot of oddities like this, as it had a high-functioning market economy, massive industrial sector (especially the expansion of cheap glasswork), and large consumer base. So you see a lot of little oddities that seem positively modern, because they were appealing to the same consumerist instincts that 19th-21st century societies would later cater to. Consumer goods from utilitarian to goofy to elegant to kitsch!