We should be careful being hung up on a certain small group of "known" names.
Look at almost every other human endevour.....music, architecture, artistic painting - the list is endless.
Just watching "The Range" yesterday gave me a few "new" artists I hadn't heard of previously but are superb.
Unless we allow fresh ideas and have fresh input we will only get "more of the same"
Now that the shackles of patents that have crippled development in the pinball industry are all expiring (some have and many others are coming up to 20 years when they can not be renewed) - - - - - time to move forward IMO.