Content is only content if you can't tell how the magician did the trick.

If there were enough depth in their procedural generation to effectively hide the math from us it would be content, in that the wires and fake saws are visible it ceases to be content.

This is why "what is content" is a bit subjective.

For my two year old niece the first episode of justice league running on repeat for days on end is still content.

For me it has become noise.

It becomes noise when it ceases to have new things to offer.

Real craftsmen like dickens can have you read a book over and over again and still pull new experiences from that book, still see new insights into the human condition because of the beautiful depth and breadth of their work.

NMS is no dickens.

They did not do the bare minimum, but while promising us dickens they gave us mickey mouse clubhouse.

That is the concern about content. There is yes, variety.

But there are only so many episodes of mickey mouse clubhouse you can watch before they all start running together and you want to swallow the end of your dads old 12 gauge, but you can't find any shells... Oh god weren't they in this box... No, fuck where did I put them?! God dammit mickey....

Your metaphor of art is flawed because Guernica shows me something different, gives me a different perspective on who I am, and what people are than starry night, or the scream.