> I ask: are we stuck as a monoculture, not making new, interesting things, but simply replicating older ones?
I really don't understand how you go from this story to that question. There are two, new, interesting things here:
1. The dev has made something which narrates their life. That's new and interesting
2. David Attenborough actually is still producing new (and amazing) nature documentaries. Planet Earth III has just come out and is astounding https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gjwxhv
I really don't understand how you go from this story to that question. There are two, new, interesting things here:
1. The dev has made something which narrates their life. That's new and interesting
2. David Attenborough actually is still producing new (and amazing) nature documentaries. Planet Earth III has just come out and is astounding https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gjwxhv