Some of the old school guys might like to hear that
. I think there is currently a Comeback of appreciation of hit tool and contact hitting.
In the early days of the statcast era the focus was pretty clearly improving batted ball quality, hitting balls harder, at better angles, more pull etc to improve power output and that definitely made sense because a lot of value was to be gained especially by hard hitters who hit the ball too low.
However I think that teams are now shifting a bit back to hit tool because it has been shown that hit tool and contact is very hard to teach and when everyone hits for power than K issues will hurt you more because you can't as easily compensate by hitting more homers.
That doesn't mean you can just slap the ball but teams now prefer well rounded hitters who can make contact and have some power like altuve or Justin turner.
I think stats show that, this year the top 5 offenses by WRC+ all have a below average K rate.
10 years ago there wasn't such a trend to be seen because there were still many low power slap hitters in the league so that low k hitters actually did worse but now the talent gap in power has closed so much that high Ks will stand out negative more.
I think that is a good thing for the game. Ks are still high in the league but have been slightly dropping and are back to 2018 levels.
With the guys I'm coaching I do work on batspeed and good angles but also focus a lot of covering the whole zone and making decent contact in all quadrants of the zone, I think that is the way to go, you can't go all slap but also not all try to launch everything high to pull field.