@AmenZwa Photography technique has certainly gotten easier, which sure as hell helps with crowd journalism (along with sheer quantity/universality of camera phones). But on the artistic side it was always about composition, and why the better photographers (casual, journalists, and artists) take many many photos of almost exactly the same scene, to get small differences, and later choose the best of the crop. Shortly we'll have machines doing all that, too, which will make your assessment complete.