The only artists that will remain important in a world of "slop" are those who conceive of their art practice as foremost a kind of personalized religion or ritual work & secondarily material to be consumed. Possibly this was always the case & it will just become obvious now.
I feel kinda bad for Eggers bc he has bad plastic surgery blindness and he spends all this time on period detail without realizing that something else is breaking the viewer’s immersion