Effective Dog Training?

I took my first obedience class when I was about 12 years old. The dog was a standard smooth intact dachshund and the method of choice way back then was with a choke collar and a leash. We never even considered food.
My parents wanted a well trained dog and since I was a dog crazy kid they figured that I was the perfect choice to train our family pet. It was a perfect experience for me and my dog.
That dog lived to be about 15 years old and was a perfectly well behaved dog for his entire life. I didn't know it way back then but he could have even competed in obedience trials ....he was that good. And he only had a kid for a trainer. Over the many years and many dogs, this is the method that has stood the test of time. This is the method that produced safe reliable pets.
Fast forward to today. This is the era of two dog training methods. One method employs only the use of food and the other method is virtually unchanged.
Today I train other people's dogs and I work with dogs with problem behaviours.
Almost without exception the biggest problems in dogs that I see result from treating dogs as children, using only food to train them and providing them with no structure. These are dogs who have no self control and their whole world revolves around them.
In the dog world of today, we use labels such as fur kid, fur baby, even the word baby. We call ourselves pet parents and buy clothing for them and dress them up like dolls. In short, we are demeaning them in their role as the family pet. We are denying them to be treated like a dog. They are dogs. They are dogs that were once bred to preform jobs for us. They are dogs that have a genetic map buried deep inside them.....that makes them dogs and not little humans.
So we train them like we would "like" (because this does not work with kids either) to train our kids. We bribe them constantly with food, hoping that this will make them see how much we love them. But in actual fact this is not really training....at least not for the dog. In many cases, the dog is actually training the human at the end of the leash. The leash that can never come off because the dog will never be trained to that level.
For well over two decades the positive only method has attracted well meaning dog trainers over to it's methods. And now today we have ever restrictive laws in place. We now have leash laws, so people don't even know that the dogs can be trained to walk down busy streets without a leash on. We now have breed bans, and we are now getting mandatory spay and neuter laws.
We now have dogs that are described as being a "reactive" dog. This is a fairly new term and is offered up like a medical diagnosis and simply means that this is a dog who is either dog or people aggressive....perhaps both. Dogs like this were very rare years ago. But today they have become more common and usually only seen in exclusively food trained dogs. If the positive only training were so effective, then why are we seeing so many more problem behaviours in these dogs.
Dog training must be fair to dog.....I got involved in dog training because I love dogs. I truly believe in humane fair dog training. But it has to be effective dog training that is going to provide owners with a happy well behaved dog.