It has been for decades. Crap noise for the masses. Risk in sales.
Good find by you. Not sure how you came upon this but good on you.
Sound compression is the High Fructose Corn Syrup in contemporary music.
The other day I was in a conversation about the band Toto and specifically their song “Africa”. I had never paid any mind to the lyrics before so I looked them up. Frighteningly bad lyrics. Interesting melody that drives the hook into the listeners ears over and over again. Hated the song then, even more now.
AM and most FM music radio is intolerable to listen to.
I don’t buy into the thesis, music is generational and I’m out of touch with the style and sound of today. The adage, my parents hated the music of my generation can only explain a fragment of the reason why contemporary music is difficult to listen to now. The quality of delivery changes and with it, often the quality of the sound. His argument is darn clear.
Anyway, a deeper conversion is to be had.