Everything is just evolving to a different place. Musicianship and instrumentation has moved away from the attention of the pop world. Most, if not all, radio and streaming success is pop Walmart music. Metal, rock, country, all of it. I don't listen to hip-hop to know how it's been distilled into boring corporate profit music, but I'm sure it has as well. I think we've all seen the video on how pop music devolves into sameness, repetition and simplicity.
It's for youth, seems to me, and they aren't incredibly interested in complexity and have no patience to get deep into anything, really. Every teenager dreams of running their mouth over a microphone in some form or other, because it's the most easily and quickly accessible position in music, and while we see plenty of young, incredible musicians on Youtube, they are still a shrinking percentage of their population. Commercials, reality TV shows, all of it centers around the fantasy of mouthing into a microphone.
Maybe I don't get out much, but I never hear anyone complain about McDonald's selling more burgers than anyone else, without any appreciation for 'real' quality hamburgers, with cold veggies over thick Angus grilled and seasoned with a good quality bun. We just know if we want a real quality burger, we don't go to McDonald's. I think that's what has happened with our music.
Good news is there's plenty of people who love instrumentation and the complete package of song writing and performance. I'm always running into people who surprise me in their choices of what I'd consider quality music, including some young people. It's almost like they know pop music is silly, and it simply has its place in their life, like sitcoms vs movies. Sometimes they want an easy sitcom, sometimes they want to get a little deeper into a movie.
Don't be depressed. There's a whole world out there who loves our kind of music.