actually taste is the real bottleneck (copium for people with specific interests)

A film-brained essayist discovers an AI video that nails obscure 1980s British children's TV aesthetics and decides this means the entire future of cinema belongs to people with weird niche film knowledge. The argument is structurally sound but delivered with the theatrical self-importance of someone who just realized their obsession with forgotten visual registers might finally matter. It's not wrong, but it's definitely the kind of take that only lands if you also care deeply about Bagpuss.