I agree that there can be a tendency to conflate the two things: how advanced the technology is, and how aesthetically pleasing what it produces is. It's also important to remember that we're not obligated to like something just because it's "pretty" or has high aesthetic value in some abstract sense.

In other words, the three questions of:

- is the technology good?

- does it produce aesthetically good outputs?

- do I like it and want to engage with it?

are all pretty independent.