[lunias]

For me it's mostly the characters and the narratives that feel "less real" than they used to. Something about seeing the same actor, in the same role and doing the same things, but 30 years older doesn't really sell the realism. Similarly, a new actor in an old role doesn't really either. We've lost a lot of novelty, real life is much more spontaneous whereas movies are increasingly contrived.

[red-iron-pine]

business exist to extract value aka money from people as efficiently as possible.

of course it's going to devolve to slop, they want money not realism or contrivance.

[lunias]

And this method of extracting money is only efficient within the current culture. It will not devolve to slop if people reject the slop. There sure are a lot of slop hogs at the moment though.