Progressive rock also represented the maturation of rock as a genre, but there was an opinion among critics that rock was and should remain fundamentally tied to adolescence, so rock and maturity were mutually exclusive.
Progresívny rock takisto reprezentoval vyspelosť rocku ako žánru, ale existovala v radoch kritikov aj mienka, že rock by mal patriť dospievajúcim, že rock a dospelosť k sebe nepatria.