Why can't people play guitar like Jimi Hendrix?

because this generation, no one listens to natural tone blues and old school rock. Drug rate of certain psychedelics also went down, also because Jimi Hendrix was a innovator to music, people now just use bits and pieces of his stuff to fit into their own music. A lot of reasons, basically it's just super hard to be innovative. also the 70's was way better musically in my opinion rather than ****** jonas brothers