I feel this, and personally I blame the emergence of “pretty good” digital instruments and effects. It was just that decade where digital stuff finally was good enough to pretty much replicate real things and they thought it was cool and high tech and used it. Thing is, all of us in the future can tell it wasn’t really close and it all sounds like that cheap CASIO you can get from wal-mart for $60. But hey, it was necessary because had they not gone through that in the 80’s where would we be today?