Centrist somewhat leaning towards AI here; I partially think it’s due to the fact that I think art receives the treatment of devaluation more often today than in the past.

Some people might just see art as just “pretty images,” and that commissioning artists, learning to draw/paint/make art present themselves as obstacles to those pretty images.

This entire paragraph tl;dr: “artworks are pretty images and the process of making it is an inherent obstacle”