^The skill of focused visual imagination may be depreciating. At least the general appreciation of it seems to have. Excellent audio will conjure detailed visual imagery in the absence of visual stimuli, but the same doesn't occur in reverse. Hard to imagine a video-only corollary to audio-only radio. Silent era film I suppose, but even then my great-grandfather was playing fiddle with his sister on piano in the small home town film-theater. They reportedly knew just two or three instrumental themes and cycled them over and over again depending on what was going on in the scene, same music every film. I get that people tend to go for to "easy and obvious" over "quality" most of the time, but the thing that bothers me is how most folks gravitate to mediocre video+audio over really excellent audio on its own without the crappy video. I'm the opposite and tend to get quickly bored with mediocre video, whereas great audio perks me right up.
Decades ago it was easy, but convincing others of this now seems a near impossible sell. Still, a few years ago I successfully did so with a guy sitting next to me on a plane. He was watching a rather meh cell phone video of a concert that I happened to have made a good audio recording of and unusually, had on my phone. We started talking about the concert, about music, about taping, about the video, about audio recording quality, what matters, imagination, how it all fits together. He then skipped around watching segments of the first set of the concert, after which I suggested he listen to my audio-only recording of the second set through his same headphones. At first he was hesitant, but I insisted I would not be offended if he got bored at any point and wanted to bail back to the video. It was so fun to watch him settle into it, turning his head as if to look around at the concert environment he suddenly found himself immersed in, flashing a big thumbs up and a smile a the conclusion of the first tune. He ended up listening to the entire second set straight through, seemingly loving it. He couldn't say enough about it afterward as we deplaned and parted ways. That felt really good, but I've no doubt he went right back to shitty videos the following flight.