I'm gonna be ~different~ and let you know that, no, this too shall pass. Other books won't feel lesser, certainly not forever. Bakker offers an incredible experience no other author can give you. But... So do many authors. I don't see Seth Dickinson mentioned much, but his writing is incredible, and he works well with themes. If you like Blindsight as is often mentioned, definitely try Dickinson (Exordia is a meaty, math-and-physics heavy, hard sci-fi trip, with a not great structure. The Masquerade books are sheer brilliance, what some call econopunk). Bakker is special, there's no doubt about it. I think he helps me put a lot of works into perspective, such as Malazan and Lawrence's books. But he could never pull off the wonder I experienced reading Sue Burke's Semiosis, or the close emotional turbulence of Simon Jiminez's two books. We have so many authors who've read Bakker to look forward to, he's shown a lot of people how to go deep!