At the very least, for those on their 1st rodeo (who missed the 2008 burp), they get to see the anatomy of a sh!t sh0w in vivid detail.
The current display has a little bit of everything (pandemic, social unrest, narcissistic depravity, a few Trillion of deficit and China being China.
Hollywood can do dumpster fires, but this is way out of their league. Its about the same on bad actors though.