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by logicallee 3957 days ago
Yes, it takes three times as long for a jack of all trades to draw something that is a tenth as good as what a full-time artist can do in minutes.

A tenth as good isn't good enough. But on the web, for many parts of the stack, a tenth as good really is enough. Even using too many cycles by a factor of three orders of magnitude is still good enough. You just don't need to know.