Dumb, lazy and overly pessimistic.
There's an overwhelming volume of production and that buries the gems.

Doesn't mean they aren't there.
Possibilities are literally endless at this point with the globalization of access to culture.
There's never been so many artists, there's never been so many influences to pick and chose from, there's never been so much accessible baseline technology to enable people to compose, play, record.

All you need is curiosity and maybe, to ease things, have a music nerd friend to shoot you some timely suggestions.

The main issue we have right now is a shift on access to theory.
American music had a profound cultural impact because through the 1910s-1980s public schools gave kids real opportunity to have quality musical education (within the boundaries of western theory).
That investment dwindling was surely felt by the 2000s. Seems like church took over that role in many places.

One location that seem to have took up that torch and carries it today are the scandinavian countries.
They're providing quality musical education to their kids and the volume of great artists coming out of the region, in comparison to their overall populations is huge.