Yes, since SOI. I probably should have voted NLOTH though, since the disgrace called Boots is what started it.
I will grant that Elevation or Vertigo may have been the real origin story but I think those 2 songs worked. They sound authentic. Whether you liked them or not... they work as an organic U2 sound of that moment in time.
Boots however was a forced thing... they even talked back then about how the pace (BPM) made it the fastest song they had ever done, or something ridiculous. As if that was something to be proud of. And then they kept making Dad Rock after that, hoping to land the next Vertigo.