Great post man, and I think an important message that accurately reflects the direction culture is going these days.

I wanted to add that living in China has been interesting in this regard. It was easy whilst living in the West to bemoan the lack of copyright in China, and how damaging that was economically. What is boots-on-the-ground striking is the variety and speed of creativity here as necessity, even if you'd accuse it of being derivative.

It means the sheer quantity of forms, even as prototypes, are astonishingly. And as someone who values creativity and diversity highly I see it as a net positive.