Rick Beato has a video criticizing Todays music for being boring...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks4c_A0Ach8
Though if you have looked into this article before, then that should explain why it appears like what the video explains, if you only focus on the songwriting aspect that is...
https://www.top40theory.com/blog/son...n-modern-music
With the rise of EDM music in the late 2000s, todays music no longer focus on tonal function, and I think its one of the main reasons why driver gear shift key change even went out of fashion, since sonic function seemed to do the job for what chords can do nowadays, this article shown above is why music today sounded different from music dating to the 1950s-1990s, thought this should explain why music sounds different nowadays.