> it is extremely time consuming.

Most importantly, it’s not especially interesting. Figuring out what needs fixing takes a human eye, but actually cutting a distracting pole or bit of lens flare out of a picture is work for a patient robot.

> Are losing our love of reality because of the dreams we can so easily create?

Um... no?

How do you define “reality”? If it depends on what can be shown in photographs, then the time to have this discussion was around 1850.