While I get where they’re coming from I do like brutalism to an extent and modern “block” architecture a lot. when they compared these two

I personally prefer the second one. Do I think that all buildings should be brutalist or blocky? no, but they have their place and it isn’t insigificant. I also like this too

I personally dislike the “extra-ness” of a lot of classic architecture. I will definitely agree that cityscapes are bland and lost most sense of uniqueness, but I do not think that the solution is regression to classic architecture. I think they also left out a lot of the more friendly contemporary architecture like these and this