Or was the lighting at the Olympia stage utter shit?

I know a thousand people have said this a thousand times before me, but my 2c is that it's mostly the lighting - years ago photo's came packaged in a magazine with sponsor shots, mentions, etc. So they could go with that classic plain black background with strong over-lighting, giving that Kamali kitchen effect
But nowadays they know people will be stealing their own shots/vids, so they're forced to use those Godawful animated backgrounds that tend to wash things out so they can try to force advertising to us...
#oldfart