/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Every time I look up the work of a FZD student/alum, it's the same thing. Plan & perspective drawings of cozy little cottages, multiple-view animal drawings, knights and wizards, Star Wars and Halo looking motherfuckers, exploded toaster and microwave diagrams, and assorted machine slop.
Does this fatal sameness in style and content never occur to students and teachers as a problem? Do they ever think, why would anyone be interested in this? Am I interested in this?
In nature, different species and members within a species use different strategies to survive, they seek out different resources so as not to directly compete with each other. If everyone fought over the same things, only the top 1% would thrive.
It's hard enough to be recognized doing something a little bit different. Why would you EVER be recognized, and hired, for being a second-rate Feng Zhu? Even bean-mouth CalArts was never this bad a clone factory.