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.