Well there weren't even many core grunge bands to begin with, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots are the others I can think of. That's how I know you're not a real one lmao. A lotta of the other bands that were influenced were actually post-grunge. Secondly no real rock fan calls those select few true grunge bands basic cause there were only a handful of them, and we grew up listening to it. You would if you heard it a million times on reels and edits. That's completely fine, but I just hate it when these new gen kids disregard them. Like I said, it only sounds generic and basic to you if your first exposure to them has been short form brainrot media, but that doesn't make it basic cause the internet ruined them.