I think the tournaments still hold an allure, but the sharp increase in relatively meaningless international games, both friendlies and matches against countries 100 or 200 below you in the ranking does get staid and boring.Just to be clear, this is 100% my view. I could not care less about International football anymore and if you give me the option of a Liverpool player being happy to have made the squad but being injured for a pre-season game for Liverpool or a player temporarily unhappy at missing out on the squad but being fit and available for Liverpool then there's no choice to be made.
Top level club football is the pinnacle now and it is in the eyes of most players too.