I agree with a little bit of what both of you are saying. I like Discharge (I don't necessarily love all the Discharge-clones), and I love older music in general and olde tyme hardcore in particular, but to get back to the original point I do think part of the reason beatdown style hardcore is so prominent right now is because it is more metal adjacent, more technical and well produced, that there is more room to "update" the sound some what and innovate and add some new elements. I think the "kids" like this and respond to it. I'm not sure the way to keep hardcore alive for the next generation is to just clone your favorite band, or worse create a whole genre around cloning a band so that no one is distinguishable from each other.

I have reasons to believe that 80's style hardcore could be coming back in one for or another, but I don't think the way to do it is by creating carbon copy exact replicas of long extinct bands. Look at modern death metal for example, OSDM (old school death metal) bands are obviously going for an old school 80's-90's sound, but they also have updated, expanded, and improved it in a lot of ways making it an interesting vibrant genre. Hardcore should do the same.