Agreed with the author's assessment that members of Gen X are overlooked and underappreciated. But they weren't always "invisible"...I remember, as a Gen Y kid during my teenage years, watching the Xers get mercilessly maligned by Boomers, Traditionalists, and GI-Gens.

For more of an overview on the generational interrelationships that exist, check out the following piece of mine:

https://medium.com/indian-thoughts/summarizing-americas-eight-generations-65f97d05aef6