This is hard to understand. German food has always been fairly straight forward and, in my opinion, delicious.
That's because you are thinking of real German food, like Brats and Kraut, Weiss and Strudel. Anything new that comes out of Europe now (especially France or Germany) has been tainted by the insane new European craze of relatavistic normalism, where there is nohing that is wrong or weird, only misunderstood.