It also feels like these things are making me more musically illiterate.
You see enough Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Imaginal Discs and the twenty yearly Trhä albums as super highly praised and something every music nerd should listen to, and forget what kind of music most people actually like... which if you go by the spotify charts, is a lot of slop! And if you go by the radio, it's mostly the same stuff since 1995.
The top 10 of all time there are:
To Pimp A Butterfly
OK Computer
In Rainbows
Wish You Were Here
good kid, m.A.A.d City
In the Court of the Crimson King
Madvillainy
Kid A
The Dark Side of the Moon
Loveless
TPAB and 'Good Kid m.A.A.d City' but no 'Damn'
because damn is worse than both and I will stand on that
Not arguing agaisnt that. DAMN is nowhere in their top 100.