Good point. I think that old style of football has died partly because of the modern trend of playing 'inverted' wingers who cut inside. It kills me how modern players are just so damn poor at crossing a ball; it's a lost art. Plus, centre forwards usually play up on their own these days so their key job is to hold it up, lay it off, relieve pressure, often a long way from the box.There's a distinct difference between what you describe i.e a winger getting wide and playing crosses in the box for a aerially dominant striker to attack, and centre halves playing 60/70 yard punts and playing percentage, turgid football that has been the benchmark of Pulis, Warncok, Dyche et al.
You can't blame Everton for playing the percentages against a better team, mind you, especially in a derby; Dyche has pretty much built his reputation- as Allardyce did - on the grinding out of results by his less talented, battling teams. It's not like Liverpool didn't know what was coming, just that this time, a bit unlucky, a bit out of form, their underlying superiority wasn't reflected in the result.
Klopp's Liverpool used lots of long balls in their heyday, often pinged over by TAA for Mane or Salah to run in behind. There are different types of long ball football, as you say