I think I misunderstood your post. Though “Every Day Is Exactly the Same” specifically isn’t all that revolutionary, the album does represent a huge turning point in Nine Inch Nail’s history.

With Teeth was the first album Trent released since The Fragile six years earlier. In the time between he had sobered up, shaved his head, and hit the gym. He said in an interview that despite the album's continued theme of loss and anger, he's actually in a much happier place in his life.

With the release of Year Zero, it was obvious that Trent was looking to shake things up in the music business. He leaked singles and created a viral alternate reality game to promote the release. Disputes over album pricing and the practice of suing fans over sharing caused Trent to cut ties with his label, becoming an independent artist. This allowed for more freedom and resulted in numerous innovations such as providing ‘multi-tracks’ for free to allow fans to download and remix his songs then upload the result for others to download free and releasing Ghosts under the creative commons license.