Example, what's her name Gay forced out of Harvard Pres.

That's getting a little far afield of the topic at hand.

Suffice it to say that progressives were hoping for some movement towards significant structural changes to the U.S. economy, changes that would reflect their priorities. I think some (though not all) had gotten resigned to the fact that the filibuster in the Senate would prevent them from achieving a lot of their non-economic goals. But there were a lot of progressive wishlist items that could have gone into the reconciliation package, and many of them were in fact included in the initial bills. But nearly all of the non-climate ones (and a few of the climate ones) got dropped.

There's no audience among progressives for rigorous praise of Bidenomics. So while Fox was out there talking nonstop about the low unemployment and continued GDP growth under the Trump Administration (until Covid), you don't have the same playing out in left-leaning media. Progressives believe that a well-functioning status quo late-stage capitalist economy is unfair - so none of them are all that happy that Biden has delivered a fairly well-functioning status quo late-stage capitalist economy.