I agree.

Here's a bizarre thing: In the 1980s and 1990s, I grew up loving acts like David Bowie, Blondie, New Order, The Smiths, Pet Shop Boys, Depeche Mode, and then Blur, The Prodigy, Suede, Pulp, Sleeper, Radiohead, Chemical Brothers, etc. At the time, my parents did the usual thing of saying they preferred music of their time, etc, etc.

Yet today, with my children, I'm the one listening to, say, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Ed Sheeran, and they're the ones insisting music was far better in my day, and that everything modern is soulless, sounds the same, etc. They tend to disappear into all the bands I loved growing up instead!

I feel sorry for my children as much of the music culture I loved growing up, and all the lovely little subcultures (including goth, heavy metal, etc) seems to have vanished. I have a wide taste and enjoy an eclectic variety of genres, but I must confess it does feel a lot narrower today, though I enjoy some of what is out there. On the other hand, I sometimes wonder if the loss of things like the BBC's Top of the Pops, the fact that people don't obsessively listen to the Radio 1 singles chart, etc, is part of the problem. Those things helped promote diversity of music acts, musical subcultures, and so forth. It was a wonderful time.

I also think Spotify, algorithmic suggestions (not proper curation), and the notion of not owning music is part of the problem. I don't do Spotify and never will. I'm a strictly physical media person, and have a vast music library (mostly of singles, as I always tended to prefer them to albums). I do use iPods for convenience, but everything I own is backed by a physical copy.