Thinking about this further, I think that maybe this is a fundamental problem with taking performance and making it a competition. Competition demands an objec

Thinking about this further, I think that maybe this is a fundamental problem with taking performance and making it a competition. Competition demands an objective standard when the quality of a performance is really about the subjective qualities like showmanship. I see the same thing when games/sports become professional. It becomes about winning rather and gamesmanship than the characteristics that make the game/sport fun/meaningful/significant to begin with. For example, e-sports that remove the random aspects that make a game exciting because they aren't "fair". Or Mayweather vs. Pacquinao fight where Mayweather won using a defensive strategy; effectively winning by not fighting.