The McDonald's analogy is apt but maybe incomplete. McDonald's didn't kill good food — it just made bad food abundant and cheap. Fine dining, farmers markets, home cooking all still thrive. The real question is whether people develop taste. Photography didn't kill painting. Synths didn't kill live music. But in each case the floor dropped — the average quality of what most people consume went down while the ceiling stayed high or even rose. AI slop will be everywhere, yes. But it might also lower the barrier for people with genuine creative vision who lacked technical skill. The threat isn't to creativity itself — it's to the middle tier of craft-without-vision that was previously gatekept by technical difficulty.