Sure, but those "constraints" could be compared to switching from a piece of letter paper to a canvas. The modern "liberations" would be having a box of a million tiny artistic legos which are getting tinier and tinier.

In all situations you want the best piece of art, it's not entirely clear to me that a million hand-painted legos is superior to an artist's canvas painting. Sure, it's a lot easier to grab all the blue legos and have 30 hours of deep house, but it's very difficult to end up with starry night, with bits of euphoric light trance and depressing shadow dub melded together into your blue canvas, unless you go back to your 1980s flirting skills and spend 20 hours making a thoughtful mixtape.

I would even argue that the memory of "the album" is some instance of the Survivorship Bias. We fondly remember the great albums, forgetting the large amounts of bad or average albums from the past.