I have a hard time believing that lighting technology hasn’t come a long way since the 1980’s. There’s these things called LEDs that can produce massive amounts of light but don’t produce as much heat. You can find LED studio lights for photography and film pretty easily these days. You no longer have to have a photo studio that feels like inside of an Easy Bake Oven.
I agree, when it comes to things as old as Out of Control or I Love Rocky Road you could at least make the argument that they had to, due to the limitations of the technology at the time.
In the modern world, I kind of think it’s an excuse that they’re hanging on to because of how things used to be.