Let's just say I can listen to WDADU without needing to adjust my volume, and can even turn it up if I want, unlike most recent albums that make my ears tired and this has nothing to do with the quality of the music itself on both ends.
Which has to do with how each album is mastered, nothing more. It has nothing to do with the mix. That said, if you take issue with how the s/t album is mixed, that's something else entirely, and you wouldn't be alone in complaining about how MM's drums sound on that album. But just bagging on any album because it make you "ears tired" is because of pathetic trend in how albums are mastered these days.
It's not usually the only thing, just one point I stressed. It's also writing, creativity, the mix, all that. A lot of it is the mastering though, as recordings from the 80s, 90s, and very early 2000s don't have this problem. There's obviously music that is well recorded and well written these days, Steven Wilson and Neal Morse for example. I don't think it would change my opinion much of the music itself, but if DT12 had the production of DoT, TA, or even ADTOE, I would probably listen to it a little more often than never.