There's a bit of an artistic treadmill here; I don't know if there's a name for it.

For ages, making painting realistic was the gold standard. An assumed skill for an artist was producing photorealistic art, with composition and light and all of those other characteristics being secondary (though they most likely affected how the art was perceived).

When photography appeared, the ability to render a photorealistic scene was no longer the sole domain of painters; and in fact much of art at that time shifted towards more abstraction.

So too with music and audio; technical perfection was once a prerequisite skill for a musicisian, and now is no longer primary because it can be papered over in the editing booth.