He isnt a new kind of player (more like a classic type of player in a role that is dying out a bit, true nr 10). This is the very definition of a trequartista. To move with total freedom all over and in the hole behind the strike force. What Zidane did, what Rui Costa did, and what Totti pre striker days did. Its the role with most creative freedom, given to a player with special abilities.
You sound like you recently started watching football, its just not so common these days, but not a new kind of player at all, just a classical one that is being pushed out more and more , becomer rarer. Those type of players are pushed to the wings (Most AMs nowadays are like that, more such type of "wingers" then hug the line kinda ones), youngsters who usually would have trained just for the AMC trequartista role, have had to become versatile and trained to play in the wings for a long while now, as as fake wingers who cut in, or regista's/deep playmakers, no more set Trequartistas playing in the hole, with a hardworking midfield to service them. Was deemed too much to just rely on one players natural ability so much.