You're not alone. The salary cap has made the level of talent in the NHL extremely flat, and there's so much parity that teams with rosters that are expected to be terrible can actually be elite (see Vegas and the Islanders the last couple of years). It would be like watching baseball and every year there are several 2019 Giants and Blue Jays that win 97 games.
If you prefer that success feel like the outcome of years of careful planning and good decisions, and not like something you luck into, the current state of the NHL isn't very fun. When success is easy to obtain, it becomes cheapened, and the cap combined with the absurd standings have cheapened success. Winning in hockey isn't necessarily the outcome of deliberately outcompeting the other 30 front offices over an extended period of time.