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Yes, it's true, by the year 2025 hardcore music is more popular than metal. So what? When did Turnstile was ever "hardcore" in the first place? Why their 2025 album Never Enough starts with what sounds like New Age/Ambient synth pads with extremely Auto-tuned vocals like Sleep Token? So much for hardcore. By now, the band's style has become so abruptly charts-oriented that now they may as well erase all guitar/bass from their recordings. Apart of this pseudo-mystic The Smashing Pumpkins imitation, the rest of the album is devoted to off-beat Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes-like Pop Punk ("Sole", "Sunshower"), clean, ultra-chorus guitar with high-tempo beats as if everyone pretended The Smiths never existed ("I Care", save for the vocal lines), nods to Ska Punk ("Dreaming", synth brass included) and more pseudo-slam breakdowns so basic even old Rage Against the Machine were on another level ("Dull"). And why many solo synth pads take up a full half of the songs themselves? Is this band "punk" or "shoegaze"? And why, when Hundredth do this exact same stuff, no one notices?