I recently did lots of traveling as well, and this attitude just boggles my mind. I got lucky on my day at the Louvre because they cleared out the whole place b

I recently did lots of traveling as well, and this attitude just boggles my mind. I got lucky on my day at the Louvre because they cleared out the whole place because a fire alarm got pulled. So I started as far from the Mona Lisa as possible, and slowly worked my way toward it. Far away from it was still amazing art, but the closer I got to the Mona Lisa, the more people I saw with their phones out snapping pictures of things that hundreds of other people were snapping pictures of. I amused myself for at least an hour taking pictures of people taking pictures of pictures. To me, the point is to stand in front of things (art, nature, architecture, etc.) and allow yourself to be awe-struck. If you want to look at it on your phone, there's no reason to use your camera to do it.