Are you specifically implying the quality has dropped because they are catering to a "dumber audience"? I'd argue it's because the "people" producing it aren't capable of better.

These people are afraid of AI because a random number generator could make better content.

This is the flaw of pop culture. Everything is designed for the masses, including the lowest common denominator... Which has gotten more numerous and lower in nature. The classics came from or were based on high culture, which is people emulating an elite that possessed noblesse oblige.

And this is why the movie has absolutely bombed. Some of the activist vampires were paid for minimal work and will be forgotten but rich. Others will fall upward until there is literally no money left in Hollywood.