Similar to the way that some of Silicon Valley's genius minds feed into the "Deep State", Rodgers is one of a few brilliant cogs in the major music industry's machine. If you ask a lot of old-man-lawn-campers, people like Rodgers are becoming more of a rarity. I don't think that's necessarily the case, but I do think that as the music market floods with lower cost (or free) productions from talented grassroots producers, there will be an increased strain on big music. This strain will couple with rapidly changing distribution methods and more methods for circumvention of payment to really test big music. Rodgers didn't impress me with "Get Lucky", but obviously he's talented. I think for a lot of people, and maybe myself; when someone is under contract to produce artistic works, the creative process is damaged in some way. If he's immune to that... niceee.
Dont get me wrong, the 4 bass he wrote for get lucky were pretty much the catchiest 4 bars to come out on a guitar I probably 20 years lol. I just expected more out of him due to his track record In the 70s. I'm sure the French producers of daft punk probably had something to do with the way the album was written though. It was their vision after all, no Roger's.
I think Daft Punk have gone full circle, but I can't decide if it was intentional or not. They started by sampling, chopping, and looping analog funk that came out in the 1960's and 70's. It was kind of robotic. And they kinda acknowledged this with an album that was less sample-based, "Human After All". Now, they have created an almost entirely analog-based funk album, "RAM" (still a nod to the human/robot dichotomy). Did they create "RAM" with the hope or intention of having every DAW n00b producer sample the shit out of it? I dunno, but I hope so.
I personally liked the direction they went with alive.