Not regular people but sick little socialist members of the Fabian society and their acolytes. They did not want people to be able to enjoy anything. They wanted them miserable because that was what should be the lot of people who were not members of their faggoty little club.
This was a time that, because of mass production, even the poor could have a few nice things things to bring joy to their lives.
So they decided to "kill beauty". I am not exaggerating, they actually said that was their goal. To make everything ugly.
And although most of them are now roasting in hell their legacy of ugly lives on.
I’d say because we became soft on bad guys. Bring back public hanging for a variety of crimes. Hangings that are carried out a day after conviction.
The modern art movement has done NOTHING to give beauty to life.
Seems like all those guys did was see how far they could push obscenity under the guise of art.