Is country the new rock?

Let's see if anybody on this sub shares this opinion, cuz my coworkers were not picking up what I was putting down lol.

We were listening a lot of good rock from the late 80s to early 00s -- everybody from No Doubt, to Pearl Jam, to the Killers. I started going on a rant about how rock music as a genre has deteriorated a lot. It's tough to find new acts that sound like "classic rock"; I can only think of a couple names that have gained mainstream popularity with rock music, or they have done rock pieces but are considered pop artists. But there are very few stand out artists the way rock used to have.

I posited that many of the voices who would be really successful in the rock genre are actually doing country music right now. Like Chris Stapleton, Jelly Roll, Red Clay Strays, even Eric Church. Some of the music these artists are currently making would actually be considered Southern rock, I think. But, one of my coworkers never listens to country, and the other never really listens to rock (in fact she made fun of me for acting like an old fogey over this subject lol), so they didn't really have any opinion. To anyone who has an appreciation for both: do you think country is the new home for rock artists?