We have been on this path for centuries. Compare the symphonies of 200 years ago with our current music or painting. We humans prefer quantity over quality.
I see nice paintings (not black squares or abstract nonsense) like all the time. Feels like more people can paint at the level of “classics” now. Of course they cannot surpass the deeper meaning of the originals, because they aren’t dead yet and there’s no mystery and legacy around their names. But otherwise they are pretty good at making cool pics.
