Eugen RochkoI know 100% that people will argue with me over this, but I miss when movies were professionally lit, when actors were intentionally blocked, and when more than teal, orange and beige were allowed to be on the screen. The medium has something to do with it--film made a lot of these things fundamentally necessary--but I think it's more complex than just that. The last few years' movies are just not pleasant to look at, with very few exceptions, and the change occurred sometime around 2015.
D. Griffin Jones@Gargron A big change I don’t see other replies mentioning — LED lighting. Sets had to be more intentional with lighting because every extra light would make the set like 10° hotter.
So sets had fewer lights, making the bright areas brighter and dark areas darker in a more realistic way, and the actors sweating in the hot set made everything feel more tangible.
Now that you can throw big LED light panels around literally every corner and not worry about power or heat, everything looks perfect and flat.
Maybe another contributing factor in post-production is the LOG digital format. Nothing is ever lost. Shadows and highlights can always be crushed down. No film grain.