This doesn't necessarily take away from some of the points that the article was making about how film music is used as a status symbol or method of signaling ho

This doesn't necessarily take away from some of the points that the article was making about how film music is used as a status symbol or method of signaling how a film should be received, but there's a nice simple reason why "BRAAAM" is everywhere these days, particularly in a lot of big-budget, CGI-heavy franchise movies. As if often true, time is money in this business; if you're a composer who is brought in to score these films you likely have a shorter-than-average amount of time to do it in and you're well aware that you're not being paid to make art. In other words, there's an enormous amount of pressure to just crank it out quickly. This is how you get scores that sound so generic, and are in fact, the equivalent of aural wallpaper. Studios don't expect anything more and even if they did, composers probably don't have time to write that kind of music. Better to crank out some generic filler and thrown in a few surface-level effects (e.g. "BRAAAM") stolen from better, more interesting scores.