Does "such as" require an adjective?

Someone changed a sentence in a Wikipedia article from

These cassettes became associated with genres like Gipsy rhumba, light
music and joke tapes.

to

These cassettes became associated with genres such as Gipsy rhumba,
light music and joke tapes.

To me it feels wrong, but I cannot pinpoint what exactly is wrong. If "genres" had an additional qualifier that would need to be expounded, like "unpretentious", or "low-brow", or "mass-market", then "such as" variant would work for me:

These cassettes became associated with unpretentious genres such as Gipsy rhumba,
light music and joke tapes.

Am I not getting something here?