Without punk's back-to-basics, youth-induced refocus of rock music to it's base elements I know that popular culture, music and how we make it, avant-garde, art, hell, even youth culture would be very, very different today. It was an irrepressible backlash, inevitable.
But I personally see the marketable values of freedom and rebellion as distinctly un-punk, surely the torch of musical and intellectual freedom was carried by the experimental musicians of so-called 'post punk'? Punk was a stage of evolution for rock music, and therefore completely necessary. I can't see how anyone could ever expect music to stagnate and faithfully retain the elder generation's standards and pass their aesthetic qualifications...?
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