It's not cynical, it's just counter-intuitive because you're not familiar with the specifics and particulars of the situation, so your gut tells you "technology bad" because all you know of technology is what the corporations package for you and serve you on a platter of "apps" and other junk.

don't make assumptions about me, I work in tech thank you I am very familiar with the situation. I am an advocate for open source, I have been since I could touch a keyboard. What a smug and arrogant thing to assume and to say just because you yourself don't understand what you're advocating for or against. Hell, you even admit it yourself:

Art pretty. I've honestly never put any thought into who or what made the images I used as wallpapers through the years or what the author meant by them, If they were appealing and meant something to me it's all good.

you have no conception about creativity or art beyond what you can get out of it on an consumptive level, talking about 'wallpapers' as if that is the be all and end all of art. And to go on to claim that that's not cynical - do you hear yourself? And then this:

No? When was the last time any old person could just go and make a hit song/movie/game?

Is that what art is for you? Something to make money from? And you're trying to come at me on some 'I'm the real communist understander' schtick. I struggle to believe you have any consistency in your ideology beyond what you personally can gain.

No one's alienating anything. Luddies are like conservatives with an imagined persecution complex. You can still draw. Others doing art isn't taking away from you.

and once more with the smugness. 'Luddies' is cute. I genuinely, genuinely am sorry that this is the logical cul-de-sac you've gotten yourself into. I'm sorry you don't see very plainly the alienation in action here, even though you yourself have it interwoven into your very argument - the only way you can think of to interface with art is via commoditisation. Whether it's what wallpaper is on your desktop, what app is on your phone, what hit song could be churned out today - no thought for the human element, just bare 'how can i turn this into more products'. I hope you figure it out