This Really Sucks

What word did they once use instead of sucks? When you wonder about it, there's some good kinds of sucking going on. Lots of good wholesome objects suck, for example: cherry flavored Popsicles, large long straws, a litter of nursing kittens, yummy Tootsie Roll Pops, vacuum cleaners, our noses, and such. Also, it seems largely a generational concept. All of us old guys/gals have no problem with sucking because we were raised with it being a natural and expected thing with infants, mammals and even hairy whales. So sucking was and still is a very good thing, I suppose. 
Well then, how did the word get such a bad rap and reputation in expressions like "This really sucks!"? I think it is because suck is succinct and works well orally and visually. No one wants to be associated with the dirty work of drains and commodes, suddenly sucking short of breath, that giant sound of the greater part of our wages being siphoned off by Washington, or even in the dangerous swirling terror of a tornado! If something is said "to suck," then it clearly communicates to all senses involved that what is being experienced could be bad for both mind and body. There appears no other way to express one's present discomfort and disgust than "___ sucks!"
And I just think the young adults today are infatuated with those one-word descriptors such as sweet, bad, hot, bites...sucks. These seem to sum up the emotion in real order, better maybe than our older versions of getting bad vibes about and something being not groovy, man.