A machine might be able to make an objectively better thing, but that’s not what people are paying extra for. It’s the story about a real person applying their skills and effort to make it. Demand for that will likely never cease to exist. I bet it’ll just increase.
I think the key point here is. sadly the glut of the world right now, plus AI video etc… Point is if you try and buy something “handmade” from the internet, You’ll find a lot of mixed quality AI generated videos of people pretending to make the stuff, plus even if they didn’t AI generate the video, they may have just gotten or filmed one person making something similar to what they dropship once. (you can probably tell once you get it, but you’ll probably have to buy 5 counterfiets before you find a real one, unless you can physically walk to where they handmake it and see them make it.
Buy local.
That’s why I threw the caveat there “unless you can physically walk to where they handmake it”, but of course depends what you want and if you live anywhere near somewhere that does it.
If you really want something handmade, the best place for it isn’t online, but in outdoor market stalls