thanks Made in Montana.
i can appreciate what you're saying about what is attractive/what's not, but i also agree with you that bbers don't put themselves through all this to look attractive.
it's like saying a guy plays pro baseball to get the girls.
what drives a pro bber imo is the need to improve. progress is human nature and humans will do whatever it takes to succeed.
thus bbers must get bigger, freakier, etc.
i doubt serge said one day, "oh, i want to just maintain now."
maybe the mistake is, as you say, adding mass for the sake of it. bbers should be addressing proportion shortcomings instead maybe, but i can't see a competitive athlete ever saying enough is enough. athletes must strive, it's in their nature.
the result of progress is physiques that looking freakier and freakier.
the type of physique that serge had was probably more unattainable than what cutler presents, because a lot of what serge had ie tiny waist, etc were genetic attributes.