I appreciate this, but also wonder if we are in the middle of a transformation where some forms of creativity (note: not necessarily engineering) are being "flattened". Everyone can output beautiful pixels, beautiful audio, beautiful token sequences.
Maybe it's like the transformation of local-to-global that traveling musicians felt in the early 1900s: now what they do can be experienced for free, over the radio waves, by anyone with a radio.
YouTube showed us that video needn't be produced only by those with $10M+ budgets. But we still appreciate Hollywood.
There are new possibilities in this transformation, where we need to adapt. But there are also existing constraints that don't just disappear.
To me, the "Why" is that people want positive experiences. If the only way to get them is to pay experts, then they will. But if they have alternatives, that's fine too.
Maybe it's like the transformation of local-to-global that traveling musicians felt in the early 1900s: now what they do can be experienced for free, over the radio waves, by anyone with a radio.
YouTube showed us that video needn't be produced only by those with $10M+ budgets. But we still appreciate Hollywood.
There are new possibilities in this transformation, where we need to adapt. But there are also existing constraints that don't just disappear.
To me, the "Why" is that people want positive experiences. If the only way to get them is to pay experts, then they will. But if they have alternatives, that's fine too.