Are we in a golden era of TV right now?

Hell no. Probably 2002-2012

Lost
The Wire
Sopranos
Mad Men
Breaking Bad

To name a few.

Nope. We just left it. I would argue the Golden Era of TV started in the late-90s with the premiere of shows like The Sopranos and The West Wing.

During the period from 1999-2019 you had the following shows premiere that really set the pop culture world on fire:

The Sopranos
The West Wing
Band of Brothers
Six Feet Under
24
The Shield
The Wire
Battlestar Galactica
The Office
Deadwood
Lost
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
How I Met Your Mother
Rome
Avatar: The Last Air Bender
Friday Night Lights
Mad Men
Breaking Bad
The Big Bang Theory
Luther
Sherlock
The Walking Dead
Homeland
Game of Thrones
House of Cards
Orange Is the New Black
Better Call Saul
Black Sails
Stranger Things
The Crown

Absolutely not. If anything, the quality over the years has dropped overall. Shogun is an outlier so far. It's harder and harder to find good content imo to invest time in.

Don’t think we are the golden era. But we are in an era with more choices than ever, so even if the percentage of really good shows is low, there are still lots of them out there.

The Golden Era of TV was before cable and numerous networks.

Sure you have more choices now but most of it is unwatchable trash. Back in the day the Big 3 networks would spend the entire corporate budget on at most 21 shows a year (7p-10p x 7days/week) and the season was about 9 months long (holidays and other specials filled the calendar). Minor characters and guests would be A -list movie and theater stars, very little weak acting. Writers had to exhibit top quality as the competition was fierce.

The limited availability for delivery made the competition for a paycheck tough. Only the best of the best made it.

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Are we in a golden era of TV right now?

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That depends. Are you a quantity or quality guy?

TV now is a shitshow compared to what I grew up with and have enjoyed watching over the years.

So many shows that were popular in the past could not be made today with the amount of "this is so insensitive" people in the world.

Watch almost any older western or popular sit-com from years ago on TV today and they usually come with some disclaimer/warning that "The material depicted in this show may be sensitive to some viewers and depict an antiquated view of the world" or some such similar crap.

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Last of Us

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Was shite.

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Are we in a golden era of TV right now?

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No

There's so much NOT right with TV right now.

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Just watched the last episode of Shogun and it was one of the more gut wrenching hours of TV I’ve seen in a long long time.

Fallout is great. Bear is one of the best things in years. Gentlemen was one of the best spinoffs I’ve ever seen. Halo kinda righted itself. Succession had a great run.

White Lotus. Beef. Only Murders in the Building. Poker Face. Twisted Metal. Barry. Last of Us. Severance. Devs. The Old Man. Stranger Things. Witcher (S1&2.) 3 body problem. Peacemaker. Mare of Easttown. Yellowjackets. House of Dragon. Masters of the Air. What we do in the shadows. Could go on and on.

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You named shows, some of which lots of people think suck. Very few that that the consensus is they're very good.

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but I’m to a point where I can’t catch up and there’s dozens of shows I haven’t even seen that I randomly stumble across or remember to watch

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If it were a GREAT show, don't you think you'd have remembered to keep watching? I mean, seriously. If it's something I look forward to, I make a point of seeing it.

Now, on to some of the other issues with TV today; your list goes across several different services. Netflix, Prime, Max, Paramount, Apple, Peacock etc. That's not even counting the Disney+ shows, some of which (Mandalorian, Andor, Loki etc) are considered very good too. So you have shows spread across a multitude of services, some of which might be the only thing you will watch on that service. I'm not paying for all of them, I don't think it's a great experience to binge something in a week and then wait over a year for the next season.

And then we have length of season- 10 episodes, if you're lucky. Network TV would give you 25+ a season. Call it "filler" if you want, but if I love a show, I don't mind having a new episode every week. It's kinda like having cupcake games in college football; there's no drama when LSU plays Grambling, but I do get to watch LSU play, so that's better than no game.

Another thing I'd mention- the best currently to me right now is Shogun and Fallout. Shogun is a remake of a miniseries, Fallout is closely based on a game. There's nothing wrong with either show, but they're also not original concepts. Remaking a miniseries in particular- today's format IS miniseries, so they basically just dusted the old script off and reshot it. It doesn't go deeper, or do anything new (it can't if it is to stay true to the book). Again, it's done well, and I like it. But I've already seen it; and it's set in 16th Century Japan. There isn't something that happens that you couldn't portray back in 1980 or whenever the miniseries was made, that modern techniques show better. If anything, I would say some of the offshore scenes were better/more expensive in the original. The lighting was better in the original (the interior scenes are dark in this version).

I would say a "Golden Age" would have multiple shows EVERYONE watches, that are original in idea, that you don't forget about watching the next episode until the season is done.

No

The Golden Era of anything runs through the 80s into the 90s

Dallas
Dynasty
Magnum PI
MASH
WKRP in Cincinnati
Happy Days
The Jeffersons
Dukes of Hazzard
Simon & Simon
Newhart
The A-Team
The Cosby Show
Family Ties
Miami Vice
The Golden Girls
Moonlighting
Night Court
Murder, She Wrote
Taxi
Roseanne
Cheers
Home Improvement
Seinfeld
Friends
ER
Law & Order

2000s brought in a lot of reality and game shows. The golden era was over