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It's as simple as "Technology over Artistry"
Unreal Engine faces are now created via a highly polished process which turns scans and mocap data into a hyper realistic facsimile of a real person. There is no longer any room for artistic intent or interpretation. This is by design because those who own the process would rather place their investment in a process than in the individual talents of creatives which they can not perfectly control
Modern Western games are fantastically, impressively ugly on purpose. Not just ugly in the objective beauty sense, but ugly in the sense that they lack any soul or meaning or value, they are simply technology leveraged to create high fidelity Stuff. They are not always AI generated, but they might as well be
