I think if punk wants to move forward, the genre needs to challenge the white, straight and cis male dominance of the scene, and also reexamine its attitudes towards other music genres. A lot of the hatred of disco and pop was cis male reaction, but I think there was also a rejection of what many considered reactionary and bourgeois attitudes. Those attitudes are separate from the music genres though, and the punks should really examine what it is they’re actually against. I think punk has a lot to offer the youth, especially with its emphasis on anger and living under capitalist alienation, but it can seem very stuck in the gen X 80s and 90s, and it needs to move forward. Two ways to do this I think would be to embrace subgenres like emo, which was created as a reaction against the macho tendencies in the scene, and sass, which largely existed to make punk more “fun” and not so rigid to try and open up the scene to different groups of people (not just white males). It was supposed to be more “danceable” and sass would go on to influence the dance-punk scene in the early 2000s.

this has already been happening, you just need to find the right punk bands. it's all about the bands you listen to