[NeoVXR]

I'd like to propose an experiment:

find 20 or more commercial albums with nice music but typical in-the-box sound. must be not too bad, not too good. you need to know some details about the production.

now sort them:
a) the engineer is quite young started 100% within the digital domain.
b) the engineer is somewhat older and was a guru with analog gear.

will these groups of specimen sound different - can we find a common structure in the sound within a group?
if yes, then it has much to do with the perception and foresight for which you develop an instinct. IMO to feel how the tracks would sum up, even before they are done, is very different between analog and digital buss.
therefore I am optimistic that after a few years all these mixes will sound much better, not only because of better technology, but much more, because there will be longer, genuine experience with these software tools.