Lenses have and have not moved on. Developments like cheap-to-produce hybrid aspherical elements have made cheap wide angle zooms a far better proposition than they were 10 years ago.
However, the 70/80-200/210 is one of the very easiest zoom lens ranges out there. It's pretty difficult to make a bad one, and even the cheap ones give a decent image. The expensive ones (eg Canon 70-200 F4L, 70-200 F2.8L IS, Nikon AF-S VR 70-200 F2.8G) are phenominal and almost make primes in this range redundant (I say almost, because some of the most amazing primes ever produced exist in this range also, such as canon's 135 F2L and 200 F1.8L. I'm sure nikon have outstanding primes in this range also but I am less familiar with their offerings. No doubt at least one of nikon's legendary micro-nikkor fall in this range).
I had an uber-cheap all-plastic Canon 80-200 F4.5-5.6 that gave good enough image quality. I sold it to buy a sigma 70-300 APO because I wanted the range. The image quality of the sigma was fine, and it was solid enough. The autofocus, however, was loud, slow and had vast amounts of the external parts of the lens spinning this way and that. In the end I bought a 300 F4L IS (which kicked the sigma into the weeds), sold the sigma and replaced it at the short end with the 70-200 F4L (which I'd now love to replace with the long-awaited 70-200 F4L IS).
