An artist's obsession can sometimes lead to extraordinary things. All too often, however, (and particularly with photography), obsession is misplaced and counterproductive. Too many (mediocre) photographers seem obsessed with sharpness, resolution, megapixels, bokeh, high-ISO/low noise, and/or high frame rates. Or, perhaps, ultra-thin DOF, arcane post-processing, eschewing post-processing, providing a back story, eschewing context, etc., etc.
45 years ago, I ran into a group of photographers who had all decided that 'cropping' was verboten. Cropping was a "lie". They even went so far as filing out their negative carriers so that the edges of the film frame would show in a print. While there were some excellent photos in the small show I attended, the mediocre ones were not elevated by the fact that they were "truthful" (i.e. uncropped).
There are good reasons for high-end photographic technology to exist, and for techniques to be used. But sometimes it seems that obsession with the medium supersedes the message.