Well it's essentially the age old choice between having something done for you (for a price) vs. having to do it yourself (for an even higher price sometimes) but having the freedom to do it yourself, the way you want to.
Like people who order their food regularly vs. people who cook for themselves.
Or learning how to sew up holes in your clothes or do some handiwork at home vs. having to rely on paid workers to do it for you.
At the end of the day, society is based on sharing expertise and knowledge so that the community as a whole benefits overall.
Now, to conclude this awkward and botched metaphor, the community in this case is the lilcord and the GOD creator expert would be Selebus, who is the obvious go-to person for this.
Sure, whoever is looking forward to all this, could get KK, download the cards, learn how to set up some decent lighting effects, use their creative noggin and render away. Just like I could buy all the ingredients for a really good Neapolitan pizza and bake one myself instead of ordering it from my favorite pizza place. Would it turn out exactly as good? Probably not, but it would satisfy that urge. Would it cost me less? Maybe, but not necessarily? Do I really want to invest my time, effort and practice to really do that, when I could just put in an order in 30 seconds and wait for 30 minutes? Most likely also no.
And besides, he is still the mind behind this. There is possibly going to be some content outside of non-canon renders that do benefit from him not only having the KK skills but also the story insights to create interesting tidbits.
So, to give them some credit, I don't think the lilcord is as naive and braindead as some make them out to be, Sel is not really shafting them. He is giving them what they want, obviously.
Is it what I want? No, I would be happy to cook my own dinner and instead have the effort put into what I think Sel should be focused on instead. But I accept that I am in the minority. He will look at his paying clientele's feedback, not ours. Which makes sense.
Should we therefore condone the lilcord as tasteless, uncultured swine that are happy to be fed slop because they don't know any better? Probably yes.
But I don't care enough to really get riled up about it.
And there is still a chance that the event might still turn out to be an interesting change of pace and not a total waste of time.
