You're also a professional, @brian-rhodes, with a long career and a body of work to lend credence to your words.
I would imagine the "easy of access" in film and video gives you cause to rather frequently shake your head in wonderment at what gets produced-- just like there probably are some extraordinary gold nuggets that occasionally show up out of nowhere.
It's definitely a two-way street, from where I am sitting.
I don't disagree. I'm often astonished at what gets produced for the screen but more particularly how producers undershoot the emotional and spiritual intelligence of the audience. So little moves the markers towards understanding the human condition.