30 years ago, Buck Owens had concisely complained about it.
Really, when R & R and the Brit Invasion almost killed the C & W sound, the Nashville producers went in another direction, using Chet Atkins as their 5-star general for development. It worked, they got rich but the soul of country music never recovered. Now it is just formula and investment..
Chet Atkins once apologized for what he did to country music. The apology was nice, but I still wish he hadn’t inflicted string sections and all the other bad changes on us.