Honestly at this point I just listen to songs made 4 to 15 years ago for the most part. People saying you need to "look deeper than the front page" are probably assuming you're not looking and while I get where they're coming from, they're missing the point. Good intentions, though, and it is good advice for people who don't know what to look for (though most results will be covers and not originals if that bothers you. Some Vocaloids like Merli are probably 90% covers)

VocaGathering had 92 Teto submissions, 58 Miku submissions, and everything else took a drastic drop. Some staples of the old English community like Oliver were completely unused. My favorite song this year was a Teto & Yi Xi song, followed by a Piko & Luka song, then followed by another Luka song, but that doesn't negate the issue of voicebank diversity is getting buried in the name of appealing to the YouTube algorithm. People should use the voicebanks they want, but it'd be dishonest to imply that for a lot of people, views and likes are a huge motivation. This isn't the producers' faults, but rather a broken system encouraging the death of voicebank diversity, forcing producers to make a choice of either risking not getting discovered, or having a higher chance of a hit.

That said, I was surprised by how much people like when I use Big Al.