I agree with this but I think it is more complicated than people "wanting to believe CGI is better than it is", it is more like some sort of innate suspension o

I agree with this but I think it is more complicated than people "wanting to believe CGI is better than it is", it is more like some sort of innate suspension of disbelief we all have as long as what we are seeing is as good or better than what we've seen before. I lived through the entire CGI revolution in movies from the early days of Tron and the "Genesis effect" sequence of Star Trek II to now. The way the CGI in all the movies in between looks to me now is very different than it looked to me when first viewed and as a graphics nerd I was always interested and up to date on the technology was done. I don't believe my brain "wanted" to believe CGI was better than it was then, I just had no context for how it would look when it was done even better and as the goalposts moved what came before looked increasingly bad in comparison.