To be blunt about it, I can't help but imagine that the people who make such comments (and I've seen quite a few recently) are just complete philistines. They'r

To be blunt about it, I can't help but imagine that the people who make such comments (and I've seen quite a few recently) are just complete philistines. They're the same people who can't draw, write, play, sing, design, or anything else and yet think they know what's good. It's almost as if they think the purpose of art or entertainment is to stimulate some particular part of the brain and everything else between that and the screen/speakers/canvas/whatever is just an inconvenience that ought to be dispensed with as soon as technology allows.