You are right, it has become a lot easier… but a LOT of effort went into making it easier to turn something digital into something more analog, and somebody paid for that development. Does this hint at a desire on the part of people for things that have more of human touch feel about them (feel because it is faux). Simultaneously, UIs and screen based device design has moved in the opposite direction to more austere and reserved. Maybe that is the right thing so they can be blank vessels for the content?