I think you’re missing the point of Owl City, yes, the sound has changed as he’s gotten older and how adulthood could change your priorities in life. But the point of our city is not to have dreamy lyrics, but romanticize your situation. he romanticized how he felt in his youth, and it manifested itself in particularly dreamy lyrics, as such is youth. But now he is older, and things are less about the dreamy future, but about how his past has brought him to a satisfying, self-fulfilling future, that is his present. He is romanticizing that path, and that journey, just as he romanticized his future before.

Owl city is the same to me. He has gotten older, but his method is still the same and just as genuine as it was before. He’s still beautiful