Glut is never cool. And to be entertained, humans need some form of novel or complex stimulus that goes beyond what they already know. And you can't just "tune the AI" to be innovative, since we only accept idiosyncratic artistic decisions when we feel human intention behind them.
Quantified status also drives entire industries. Influencer marketing is a $24B market growing quickly. The industry is built on status associations. We see this clearly in the 2010s rise of “the lifestyle influencer”—lifestyles are the most obvious markers of status, and the influencer economy is built on aspiration .