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I don't think her music overall is repetitive. I think that, since nowadays she uses violin a little too much among other things, it seems that everything is just the same. But it's her style, and well, that happens with every composer/musician so I see it as a normal cycle.
Even though Keiko isn't used as much as main vocal, her participation is extremely important to the trio and shouldn't be considered as an acessory, like Kaida in Kalafina. Take Lacrimosa for example. She doesn't sing any part as main, but take her back away and see the results.
I repeat, I would like to hear more from her as main vocal. She has the talent, she's awesome, so why not? But even so, her part as back is so unique that I don't think she should stop doing that as well. (in a sense I'm dreaming for another Kizuato, in the sense that she and Wakana swaps from back to main. It was so cool).
Well, Kajiura still uses her viola, not as much as the violin, but ARIA for example has the viola. Mata Kaze... has cello. Natsu no Ringo has Quena. It's not much, but it hasn't disappeared completely.
If there's seomthing I miss from Kalafina was their overlapping voices, one singing one phrase after the other sung. Not that every song of them has this and not that the song has to have this in order to be good, but it was a nice aspect that I think was more frequent in Seventh Heaven than in Red Moon. That was one of the things I liked the most in sprinter, Kimi ga Hikari ni Kaete Iku, Seventh Heaven and even fairytale.
Even though Keiko isn't used as much as main vocal, her participation is extremely important to the trio and shouldn't be considered as an acessory, like Kaida in Kalafina. Take Lacrimosa for example. She doesn't sing any part as main, but take her back away and see the results.
I repeat, I would like to hear more from her as main vocal. She has the talent, she's awesome, so why not? But even so, her part as back is so unique that I don't think she should stop doing that as well. (in a sense I'm dreaming for another Kizuato, in the sense that she and Wakana swaps from back to main. It was so cool).
Well, Kajiura still uses her viola, not as much as the violin, but ARIA for example has the viola. Mata Kaze... has cello. Natsu no Ringo has Quena. It's not much, but it hasn't disappeared completely.
If there's seomthing I miss from Kalafina was their overlapping voices, one singing one phrase after the other sung. Not that every song of them has this and not that the song has to have this in order to be good, but it was a nice aspect that I think was more frequent in Seventh Heaven than in Red Moon. That was one of the things I liked the most in sprinter, Kimi ga Hikari ni Kaete Iku, Seventh Heaven and even fairytale.
But it's completely MY problem that I consider singing two lines alone as a solo part, so YMMV. 
But this POV does sum up to my aforementioned list (and even 8/30 doesn' change the picture drastically). As to the dictionary - yep, my fail here. 
There's the Garden of Eden and then there are common tendencies in the music world, where bands split and reorganize for FAR LESS significant reasons. For all we know, it might be what really happened to Maya - deciding she'd better go solo instead of being part of the quartet. Keiko, on the other hand, is there, for whatever reason. Maybe she's fine with what she gets to do, maybe she chills out in FictionJunction and lives that feature her solos a lot more. In any case, we don't have enough safe data to clearly choose between whether she's the oppressed one or whether that only concerns our unfullfilled fan desires. You want a lot more Keiko, and I certainly wouldn't mind Eri Itoh in EVERY OTHER SONG Yuki writes. 
Yours being that Kajiura's music quality is dropping and she neglects Keiko, mine being that "it isn't" and "she doesn't" respectively. It's just that such contrasting opinions tend to create tension - but debates and objections are pretty much what we're always prepared for once we post something. Forums are generally not for stating opinions (that's what comments are supposed to have been made for), but for DISCUSSING them. Cue debates, holywars and such. And still, bearing with other people's views is sane enough in itself. I know people who aren't impressed by Yuki's music at all - but I've never felt like going postal on them for that. 
