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The funny thing is there's almost always this, "our society has forgotten how to make elegant art" cycle that people keep complaining about. Rejecting modernist art is an old practice.
There was a post about how the Nazis called their modern art "degenerate art" and they wanted a return to some weird traditional ideal they had.
People all over now complain about anything symbolic looking that isn't dead obvious in what it represents, and that sort of modernism can be seen a hundred years ago too. You could take some 1920s art and put it in front of someone and ask if they like modern 2020s art and many would probably complain about the minimalism in some art deco.
The fact that some people reject it so much and think it's too non traditional IMO is one of the most interesting and powerful aspects. It made a lot of people feel revulsion, and not because it's done badly, but because it doesn't conform to their traditional ideas of what art is. They don't get it, they don't want to get it, they don't want to think about why it works, and don't want to understand it. It kind of did something not a lot art manages if it gets that reaction out of people.