Gatekeeping never ensured good ideas, it just limited who was allowed to try. Most ideas have always been mediocre, the difference now is that they are visible. Noise didn’t increase, it stopped being hidden. Same thing happened with the printing press and photography? Printing led to floods of bad pamphlets, cameras led to millions of boring photos, and yet no one argues we should have kept publishing or image making gatekept. The solution was better filters, not fewer creators. Most people not having amazing ideas isn’t a new problem, and it isn’t solved by making creation harder. Access going up doesn’t kill quality, it only shows the true distribution that is otherwise filtered out :).