I mean yes it really is this simple in many ways and the attempts to intellectualise it should use basic material analyses like this as starting points rather than going all in with Baudrillard from the off and trying to mash the facts to fit.
Moe Juggs
Isn’t it the same as music where you have access to everything ever and some people make explosive futuristic choices from those launchpads some just settle with what works (Fleetwood Mac, Ralph Lauren trousers), and others nail their colours to an ancient subculture (nirvana records/tshirts)