The girl has some pipes for sure, but yeah I'm your camp. To me this songwriting is lazy and predictable. "Don't you ever say, i just walked away"? Yeesh.

I don't mind hearing a Modest Mouse knockoff on rock radio these days. Rock radio might actually be worse now than the Creed/Puddle of Mudd days.

How could you NOT laugh at Warboner?

The kids in the Volkswagen commercial singing in the car to "Mr. Roboto" is the only tribute Styx is worthy of.
Unless you consider Cartman's sped-up "Come Sail Away" from a not-good episode of South Park a tribute. I don't.