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I am not entirely convinced by this line of reasoning.
How many house music or hip hop classics are being covered 20 years later? Many of my favourite records were made by relatively naive musicians, using simple kit to find a way to express themselves.
There is a generation of musicians who are musically illiterate but given an MPC or computer can come up with something highly creative, stimulating and that may be listened to in years to come. Ron Trent was a teenager when he made Altered States. Having watched footage of Derrick May playing Strings of Life he is clearly not a musician in the traditional use of the word, he can barely play a keyboard, though he could use the basic electronics of his day in an amazing way.
Kiss probably went the way it did because it became a commercial radio station, commerce became more important than the musical values that underpinned its early days.
Not all music is worthy of repeated listening. Some tracks that get everyone excited date really quickly, others are slow burners and considered classics years later despite having negligible impact at the time of release.
At any given time there will be a lot of dross released, it will only be in years to come that people will chose the songs that will become the standards of an era. Even then the standards become cliches with lots of people doing piss poor cover versions.
This is not to say that I believe Kreayshaun has produced modern classics, but I would hazard a guess that there will be music from this era that we look back upon fondly.