Just from what I've heard of him thus far, my preference(s)... The music (guitar) needs to be better and more instruments, a full band. I've yet to like his lyrics, but they need to be sung better. Being independent is great, but improvement is needed.
Now you 'think' I'm a "kid" who 'somehow' doesn't "appreciate real music." Go look in the mirror and you'll see a disrespectful bully. Just because you like this doesn't mean I, or anyone else, has to.
He writes the perfect hymns for the extreme right wing and the conservatives and all the qanon conspiracists. "us down there vs them up there" and "it was better back then" pub-politics bullshit.