I have a friend who's a professional engineer at a local studio and after working on some filler for some vocalists (simple drum/guitar parts quickly banged out

I have a friend who's a professional engineer at a local studio and after working on some filler for some vocalists (simple drum/guitar parts quickly banged out so they had something to listen to while recording), I got to hang around and see famous musician X's sibling attempt to record vocal tracks. They were so awful that musician X had to sing along so the vocalist could hear it in the monitor to get close enough to the pitch so the auto tuner could make something that didn't sound like a robot. After seeing that, I am no longer surprised at the state of any recent music recordings or compositions. I first noticed the massive over-use of compression in the mid-90's, and it's only gotten worse since then.