Nowadays ofc users have to work against the grain of computer tooling for it to sound or look pedestrian; it wants to glide you toward corporate level gloss . adobe creative cloud , apple logic etc. I don't think it's weirdly disingenuous or retro for new young creators to try to push against that and stay lower fidelity. That hyperpop 2015 wave to me felt like more of a concession rather than any sort of conceptual breakthrough honestly.. There was no hope of being any higher fidelity, of ever looking corporate, it looked and sounded like what it was,