LIG was full of that shyt, from You Wouldn’t Understand to Back When to Locomotive to Bye Baby. On KD there was Blue Benz and Car 85. On this album there’s Moments and Nas Is Good. You’ve now shifted your argument into territory that doesn’t make sense.
If you want to argue the songs themselves aren’t as good as they used to be…fine that’s your opinion. But just from a writing perspective all the songs I mentioned are in that prototypical project window and/or inner vision lane. A better argument for you would be that Nas dated himself by focusing so much on the last. I wouldn’t agree with you but at least you could make an argument that we could discuss/debate.