Quote - "Photorealism" might be boring if you're just dragging content into a scene and clicking render.  The pros are creating their content from scratch.  So photorealism is probably a more interesting goal for them.

For instance, which cars are real and which are only photoreal in this scene? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDqfmEd4fQ8

I'm the one who's ranted for years about hitting the render button too soon? Hello? The one who will spend months on one simple image? The person who feels guilty for not making every last object in a scene, and lists everything not my own? Who can't even use a shader preset without rebuilding it?  (And hates my latest image because there are too many imported objects.)

The boredom is in the final product. As in: would have been a heck of a lot faster and better with a camera.

This, of course, is just my opinion. Photo-real can be impressive. I just find renders that concentrate on content leave a more lasting impression.