one thing for sure, we are all being hit by a huge wave of slop, the reasons are always the same: some random moron wants his 15 minutes of fame and vibe slops something, let it be a landing page, a piece of software, a drawing, music, firmware, a book, whatever.
Creative / intelligent / motivated individuals instead use the instrument creatively (whatever that means in that person's field) because it's so easy to not make slop if you care just a tiny bit about the output the slop machine is producing.
Still, seeing the slop being churned out for fame still hurt me (i'm a software developer, hardware designer, used to be a musician and back then i had a couple of good ideas but i missed the eurorack train), but i am doing my best not to be an hypocrite about it