Not that every of his films is wnjoyable, but there is something i his films that stays with you for decades.
But I don't get the trashing of the cinema that existed before Godard, as this article, following so many others, seems to want to do.
Contemporary superhero franchises are trash, certainly (at least to my eyes). But what's wrong with Casablanca (1942) or Double Indemnity (1944) for example?
Why couldn't we have both?
On top of that his film making was certainly interwoven with the upcoming 68 counter culture and has to be seen as the effort of an generation to break with the existing tradition.
Typically what film makers like him tried to reach was not that all films should be like his, but that there is the chance for something else to exist than cheap, dumb entertainment and that film makers can also try to make actual art with their works without always having to do a target market analysis.
And the next “new wave” will probably be spearheaded by creators who love superheroes but want to create something new.