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This is a weird topic I know a strangely large amount of things about. It's a lot more complicated than him being a perfectionist. It's been an open secret for a long time that Dr. Dre doesn't really produce music or do any technical work outside of arranging and fine-tuning drums/drum patterns.

The people who have been ghost-producing for him have been getting old and not in-tune with the changing landscape of hip hop, so the Dre sound as a whole hasn't really evolved much even though there's been some attempts that ended up leaking years back. If you listen to a lot of leaked/reference tracks even as recent as the mid/late 2010s they sound like they could have been made a decade before.

The other huge issue is that the prospect of collaborating with Dre isn't as enticing or lucrative as it once was. The vast majority of his protoges and ghost-producers didn't go on to have successful careers, and working in that secretive and insulated environment holds their careers back. Also being associated with Dre at this point is irrelevant as younger listeners don't care.