Yeah, although it doesn't mean that, say, the top 10 pop songs aren't blander today than they were 50 years ago.
I've heard it argued that Spotify pushes songs to be blander, for example, because:
- they don't typically get played back as part of an album anymore, so they're more samey in that they all have to work as a single,
- you don't want to be the song that stands out, where the user presses Skip, because Spotify will rank those lower, and
- lots of folks now consume music as background noise, so the intricacies of a guitar solo, which would've hit like a truck for active listeners, are often just drowned out by traffic noise or may just be too much to take in while you're learning for school or whatever.
Having said all that, there is the flipside that the top 10 pop songs are less relevant than ever. You've got practically an infinite supply of songs to choose from, so you kind of just have to find the good stuff.
That is work, I admit, so I can understand a certain level of frustration, but yeah, it is also something to be excited about, that there is such a huge selection to choose from.
I mean, while this definitely does happen in reality, in particular if you count data scientists towards programmers, I feel like I need to point out that neither knowing computer science, nor maths, makes you a good programmer.
In fact, if you tell me someone is a computer science professor, I will assume that they are a bad programmer, because programming takes practice, which is not something they'll have time for.