Texas Renaissance Festival – weirdly sanitized these days?

So, I've somehow managed to live here since I was 12 and make it to nearly 30 without going to RenFest until today.

The impression I've always gotten was that RenFest was… you know, a bit edgy. A bit of a wild nerd party. Lots of potheads and pothead-catering stores and activities, drunk people walking around shithoused off mead horns ogling titties, that kind of thing. The type of place Hank Hill would run screaming from and probably immediately call the cops, if you follow me.

What I saw was… sort of like if Trader's Village and the shops at Six Flags in San Antonio mixed together and became vaguely medieval in the process. Lots of cool leatherwork and blacksmithing stuff and whatnot, but, uh, a much more calmed and relaxed and sober and advertiser-friendly vibe than I assumed it was going to be, almost everyone there was a family with kids, and 95% of the activities seemed to be pretty specifically for families with kids.

My wife had been about a decade ago, and tells me this is absolutely not how she remembers it and the vibes used to be much different, even setting aside that the campgrounds are apparently their own whole thing. I'm assuming something happened to RenFest between then and now. Did I miss the glory days, did I just come on the wrong day, or did I have the wrong impression the whole time?