"Landscape photography has actually been maxed out for years" - that's what the former equipment manager of our local photo club told me around 1990 - himself a lover of the infamous Cokin "tobacco gradient filter".
As a young photographer, I could hardly counter this with any arguments - but everything inside me resisted agreeing. I simply could not accept this statement in its generality.
I would never have dared to dream where my attitude would lead me many years later.