Design - maybe. Craft - doubt it. The OP, as I read it, is talking primarily about craft being lost. Maybe I am cynical, but it's easier to hire couple student

Design - maybe. Craft - doubt it. The OP, as I read it, is talking primarily about craft being lost. Maybe I am cynical, but it's easier to hire couple students filling outlines all day than to have proper artists that can do coloring, shading.. This happened to architecture and interior decoration before. We have a nice railing in my house (Prague, middle class appartment block from 1890s) that would be too expensive to replace today, you would be lucky to find a blacksmith who can do that. Apparently, it was a normal thing 120 years ago. How come that with all the technology we have today, we can afford intricately crafted designs less and less? My only explanation is economic - people are cheap and so-called "simple" design is good enough. I think we are losing something. Instead having people skilled in craft we have them either unemployed or having some bullshit office jobs (I am no exception btw).