It’s not about the software. It’s about what happens to your brain when you live inside a compositing program for too long.
You show a friend a clean, simple lower third. They say, “That’s nice.” You hear: “That’s boring.” So you add a faux VHS overlay. Then a camera shake. Then a glitch map. Now it’s “interesting.” And you’ve just contributed to the visual noise of the internet. after effects normality
You spend 12 hours tweaking a 3-second transition. You add motion blur, chromatic aberration, and a perfectly timed ease-in-out curve. It looks flawless. It’s not about the software