Yes, the professional actor that doesn't seem like a paid actor is preferable to the autistic weirdo. That's why they get paid the big bucks and we get relegated to the basement.

Jokes aside though, it's much broader than that, it's just that the zeitgeist dictates that everyone shifts from work to meta-work: musicians must impress not with their music but the way they make music, researchers must entertain, developers must manage agents, children watch someone else play games instead of playing themselves.

That's yet another increment to the already dizzying level of simulation per Jean Baudrillard.