I’m a child of the 90’s too from Alice In Chains, Nirvana, Primus et al. I saw Tool only once I think for Lolapalooza and they didnt exactly blew me away. But to each his own..
I’m more of a 70’s prog rocker, started playing bass as Yes was peaking in the early to mid ‘70s and learned every Rush tune up until they went whacko on synths. I found Tool to be one of the few post-grunge bands with chops, but then by the 90’s I was pretty much over trying to ‘make it’ as a musician and mostly listening to jazz (although still playing any gig that came my way, any genre).
not completely my cup of tea, more of a Snarky Puppy guy these days, but props for coming out with a seriously good album 13 years(?) after the last one.