If you think there's no loudness war, you can't be actually listening to any music. There clearly has been one for a long time, and it's driven by marketing concerns. I guess you could say that there's no 'war' anymore because everyone has already dropped enough atomics bombs that there's nothing left to war over I guess.
As the second point, that's one of those statements that are true but meaningless. The fact that it's available means nothing if it's not actually listened to. The vast, vast majority of music being made is heard by almost no one. It's being made based on the mistaken belief that all you have to do is create something and the world will beat a path to your door. This has been proven incorrect innumerable times in the entire history of the universe as we know it.
The music that people actually listen to in large numbers is almost all highly artificial and extremely dynamics limited. That music effectively defines what this decade will be remembered as musically, as does the popular music of every decade. It also controls what music can actually make money and therefore make it likely that people will get financial assistance to help them do it as a professional.
There are probably a couple million books written every year. You have access to all of them. How many do you go out of your way to consume? How many of them are ever known outside of a small group of people, barely or insufficiently large to sustain the author? Probably most of them. In the music world, everyone can 'publish' their work, with the delusion that they will be discovered and made famous. But in actual fact it mostly just dilutes the value of the people doing the actual good work, and certainly it dilutes the value of people putting in the years of time required to become highly proficient on an instrument, when they could just make dem beatz, yo.