I completely agree gilgamesh.
Its hard to cope without Nobue Uematsu. He really makes quality work.
Music is actually a business where i think the advancement of technology was actually detrimental to the appearance of new good music. Adding more music channels was a terrible idea as our brain cant really pay atention to all of them. If you listen to music from the 16/32 bit eras you will see that the music sounds so much clearer compared to the themes on todays games.
Too complex = bad in music.
I'm still waiting for composers to realise that...