It's never coming back. People back in the day used to spend hours at music stores. Now music stores don't even exist. They couldn't spend that kind of time anymore, even if they tried. YouTube, Instagram and TikTok aren't set up for the promotion of musical appreciation but those are the tools we have today, for better or worse.

Humanity prospered through tens of thousands of years without any music at all. So we'll be fine. It's a different world but it isn't the end of it.