I think the problem is traditional art. I for the life of me, can NOT draw. I have no natural drawing abilities what so ever. So unless the program can do it, I can't have it done.

Post work is in most cases allowing people to turn computer generated images into works of art that looks like traditional hand drawn art work. Look at winners of many contests, or the ones that get the best comments. 9/10 times it is those who can draw in the traditional sense and turns their poser figures or 3ds scenes into works that look like it is NOT done on a computer(like drawn hair, or wind blow clothes, or clouds or mist etc).

We have all this high tech gear and it seems like everybody is turning the goal of it to look like classic hand drawn art, instead of what the future of what art can be.

This is a problem most have with post work. You need to be a good 'classic' artist to do it and usually the end result is making sure your picture does not look computer generated, and most can't do this. And if you don't do the post work, and it doesn't look like classic hand drawn or a photograph, it is not thought of as good. :)

I am NOT against post work, but I do think people tend to overlook those who do things that don't fit the classic hand drawn look and put those who can do hand drawn post work on pedestals as the great artists. :)