I've found myself getting less cynical over media as I've aged. Understanding how difficult it is to make anything of quality just makes grateful that something I liked existed at all. Good, bad, or flawed, what a blessing it is to experience other folks work before its all gone
I am begging people to understand that ideation is the last thing you want to outsource to the AI slop machine. GenAI does not produce original ideas; real, living artists do. Hire concept artists for your preproduction work.