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My thoughts:

- There's an order of magnitude more CGI in films than a decade ago, so even though the budget and tech is better, its spread way thinner

- With CGI it's easier to slip into excess, and too much stuff on the screen is just visual noise

- Practical effects/complex CGI require months of planning, as it must work or you blow the budget/miss the deadline - now you don't need to plan ahead so much, leading to sloppy writing/directing, as the attitude is that 'we can rework it'

- Movies used to have 1-2 epic scenes they spent most of the runtime building up to. Nowadays, each scene feels less memorable, because there's a lot more of it, and have less buildup

- 3D people don't have the skillsets for nailing a particular look. The person who's best at making gothic castle ruins, is probably not a 3D expert, this also goes the other way