I... kinda disagree with a lot of what you said xD
I find myself enjoying Rescue and Restore the most out of their discography, it just hits everything right for me. There's usually songs that just don't click with me on each of their releases. Messengers was a close second but it had the final track and I usually go back to the beginning of the album or skip the song. Constellations and Phantom Anthem have 4 songs I don't enjoy as much, Leveler and Found in Far Away Places had half an album I just don't remember. Thrill Seeker and all their material before that just sounds awful to me lol but that's their older material though, of course it's gonna sound bad in comparison
Anyways, I have a weird beef with ABR. I've listened to them a bunch, but I'm never really surprised by their new stuff anymore. It's like.. "You're great, and you're consistently great, but you never really change either. While yeah, you're definitely amazing, you're kinda boring me now with how predictable you are at the same time" and I try to not feel that way about 'em but it's whatevers lol
This is kinda why I'm more excited for Silent Planet at that anniversary tour xD