Deeply appreciate the thought you put into this one, thank you so much <3
Truthfully I feel like there could be space for both with that sound because summer and the passing of the seasons is an ephemeral thing, but also it's the thought of "finding the possibly long-term / eternal in things that are necessarily ephemeral;" summer ain't gonna last forever basically. I can't speak to what the Frutiger-core sound is meant to represent (that, I would leave to @snugglybunne and those who have done music like this to speak to) -- all I know is that there is a strong amount of nostalgia and social reimagining associated with the bringing back of old aesthetics in digifu circles. Basically to say that the 2000s had their own kind of optimism and beauty and brightness and hope, but they were also proper toxic -- and it's worth we revisit and reimagine those years, and especially through the aesthetics used by that period.