You just jammed a very modern perspective on something that isnt that at all.
This is a time where there is no "reproduction" where all art of this sort is local. If we go into the mayor of your city's house, strip out all the reproduction what is going to be left? Is he going to be able to put a picaso on every wall if he wants them enriched?
"Soap opera like" ... Well let's think about this, any one with enough skill is gonna go to Rome, leaving what behind, the B team, the after school special level actors. This is what the B team does with art. It's very good for where and what it is.
The rant about slavery is very contemporary. The narrative that this was created by slaves cause you deemed it lifeless and they were "forced" to do it is... disconnected from history, and art.