[kkfx]

I can't tell a date, but I see a common pattern from the past: every time a thing became popular, cheap and ready available a certain cohort of people predict (rightly) that this evolution will provoke a very bad drop in quality, effectiveness etc.

If happen from handwriting to print, it happen from the printed press era to the TV era etc. That's honestly normal. Take planes: in the past be a pilot was not only expensive but just few are skilled enough and want enough to be trained for years to finally be called pilots. These days automation make piloting not much different than driving a car. It's perfectly natural that most pilots nowadays are almost interchangeable and not much skilled.

The issue is preserving at least some skilled to have some "masters" able to teach others just in case, because we can predict a bit the future but not more than a bit and re-learn things long lost in the past is far less easier than just being trained again by someone who know.

Saying that there is a peak means that something is changing the trend now reverse, and well... I see no reverse so far. So I can answer no. But number of people who start ranting about the topic augment at a certain peace so perhaps we are approaching a peak, can't really answer, what I can say is that nothing last really long if it does not work that well so at a certain point in time movies that are just showcases of special effects, bot-written news, remixed music randomly etc will forcibly fade. A certain part of our society want homogenization for industrial/business/political purpose and that's in general not just about digital media: car's are standard and even the few carmakers on the market remaining makes agreements on common features, dress are essentially evolved to be the same in all cultures in daily life etc but when something in nature became homogeneous it start to be weak so...