You were lucky.
Others have different experiences.
So, in a way, we're both right.
I don't ask for 'no pub music/entertainment whatsoever' - I've played a very great many pub gigs over the years, and been an audient at many more. I'm just suggesting that a reliable, effective mechanism be put in place to ensure that pub operators take their social responsibilities seriously.
But music from a pub that is so loud that, even with doors and windows closed, adjacent residents struggle to hear their own TVs, is completely unacceptable, AFAIC.

I reckon we've about beaten this one to death now? 😄