Good read. Zappa was a very interesting guy. He knew his stuff. Technically the music he made was very well done. What he lacked was the intangible “likability”element. You cannot learn that, you have it or you don’t. Which is not to say l didn’t like anything he did. I liked some of it.
By now, it’s all been done, and the audio quality has been good enough for enough time that it gets harder to know if a song was made today, or 5, 10, 20 years ago.
Pop/Rock has pretty much reached the lifecycle phase that Classical Music has. People just listen to the classics and aren’t really interested in hearing any of the new stuff that comes out.
The “Top 40” stuff is disposable and largely forgotten in a few months.