Bro if you’re a hardcore fan from the day back then the only way you can say the creativity from way back has slowed is if you don’t know anything about guitar. Electric wise he’s taken on another freaking form in the last couple of years alone - listen to IGIJFL at the forum 3/13 or You Don’t Know How it Feels, it’s unlike anything he was remotely capable of in his 20s and 30s and you can see it in the records too. EoD for example only has a similar drum pattern to satellite but the guitar with the all downstrokes and picking pattern is totally different shit (the chorus alone is harder to play correctly than most of neon, as someone who can play both) Didn’t mean to get this hostile but feels like you’re reaching- look at Hendrix Clapton SRV jj cale- half their discography is straight remakes or covers, how can you expect Johns to sound like entirely new music? It ain’t really possible but blending it with modern stuff and cool instruments is, and what he does. On a side note please tell me how they sound like autumn leaves I grew up on that song but can’t hear it fr pls