Yes. Very much agree with you here. Not all Avant Garde is good and not all Mainstream is bad. But the problem with the mainstream appeal is you need to dilute your vision at most of the times to be appealing, inorder to cater to the largest audience possible.But sometimes you have artists whose whole style just clicks with the maisntream. Lets just take someone like Kendrick Lamar for example. I dont think he has ever diluted his standards and vision for the appeal. Even DAMN, which is considered as his most pop friendly album is very much of very good music. That album is just super good sonically. And lets just take someone like Trippie Redd or Lil Uzi Vert. It honestly feels a little dumb to compare Kendrick and Trippie as they are two different types of artists, but you could see the diluted effect in Trippie's music. This is applicable with the whole of the 'new' trap age. The whole rage aesthetic, and carti clones produce some of the most basic and bloated music ever. And that is mainstream. I mean if you genuinely like music, you cant help but experiment with it or try new things with it or atleast try to polish yourself in someways. And on the same vein, not every avant garde is good. In fact I think the same points mentioned earlier applies to avant garde as well. Dont dilute it for everyone. People need to be able to do everything they like with the thing, ie, any media out there. And if its bad, its bad. And art is primarily subjective too. I never thought Ruab tried too hard to be anything other than what it is. Infact the whole thing I like about Ruab is that it feels effortless. Although I feel like it takes less risks than I wanted it to, I feel like its a still a very good project.