Something about art is that it doesn't cast its aspirations into the future (as is typically the case when thinking about tech) because it's here to make a stat

Something about art is that it doesn't cast its aspirations into the future (as is typically the case when thinking about tech) because it's here to make a statement now. That grounds it in the moment, and in its own way justifies the effort. Popular ideas about art often get unhealthily fixated on the idea of production; there are always standard ways of doing things that give a consistent result, and when you layer them all up you get a pretty picture. And the average "pretty picture" one sees throughout social media is built on applying just those things. But that kind of default is an example of a normalization - if everyone has a guitar, you get a lot of guitar music, yet not every guitar player is really aiming for mastery of guitar specifically. It's stylistically more important to actually settle on a medium with a definite spec and then work through how to optimize it, like how a speedrunner gradually learns the intricacies of a game. Then you can make that definite statement.