I never got into HC or any other kind of punk but I can understand the heartbreak. In the 70's I was into Progressive Rock (Yes, Genesis, ELP, etc). I didn't know at the time but punk was actually a reaction to Prog. They thought Prog was just too pretentious and high minded or whatever. Punk decided to go the exact opposite and got more popular than Prog ever did. In the 80's I got into bands like Oingo Boingo, The Cure, A Flock of Seagulls, Devo and other New Wave and early Alternative band. But then my favorite radio station in LA, KROQ started playing the most boring and bland music ever written, grunge. So now I lost Prog and I lost New Wave. With very, very, very few exceptions nothing after 1988 has been worth listening to. One of the exceptions was Gary Numan's 2017 album, "Savage (Songs from a Broken World)" and two songs on Tears for Fears's 2022 album, "The Tipping Point".
So I mostly have just reverted to listening 70's Prog and 80's New Wave. I just discovered that in about 1982 Neo-Prog rock was invented. I am just now finding out about that. So far all I have heard from the Neo-Prog bands is pretty boring. I like how 70's Prog rock was a fusion of Jazz, Classical and rock. They experimented with unusual key changes and time signatures. They rejected the 3 minute radio friendly format and wrote songs 10, 20, 30 and even 40 minute songs (Jethro Tull's "Thick as a Brick" is one song on both sides of the record). Yes's "Tales from Topographic Ocean" is a double record album with one song on each side of each of the records. Some of the bands gave labels to subsections to the whole song in a similar format to some classical music pieces.
There two punk song that I like, Suicidal Tendencies' "Institutionalized" and The Vandals' "Urban Struggle" because they are funny.