Popularity of 3d illustrations

Those of us who shoot 3 dimensional, stereo photos always talk about the stereo effect approximating how our eyes naturally see. Since the reproduced stereo (3D) effect is an approximation, it is an abstraction of reality...but the success of 3D images to the general public is not because of pictures of the world around us, it's going in the direction of fabricated, CGI imagery, which in itself, is an abstraction of the abstraction of how we normally see. Many skeptics still call 3D viewing a "gimmick," as if movies themselves are not also a gimmick (a flat approximation of reality). I guess seeing the real world on the silver screen in three dimensions when we are surrounded by actuality is just too much for many movie audiences. They need drawn illustrations of reality to accept the 3D process. Cross eyed view below...