That's a perfect observation - the loss of the knowledge base, because of the loss of true enthusiasts and professionals, being replaced by ignorant, greedy fly-by-nights. I love Art Deco anything (yet can ill-afford it); you must have found a lot of joy over the years, learning and collecting, from others witth the same passion - it's clearly a passion for you, and it's more of your ilk that are missing; with it likely being a case of when, not if, you go from the platform, having been driven away quite deliberately, it seems, eBay will have lost yet another time-served, now-expert from the fray. The rogues actually think gaming the listing search makes them seem like experts, but to even the un-trained, un-knowing eye, some of us know, when they have tried to cast their net wider with three different styles, or designers' names. 

it's the absurdity of it all - I've been a Monty Python fan all of my life, but, this farce takes the cake, the biscuit and the other (liquid) stuff. Whether you meant to or not, you did make me chuckle a couple of times - not at your frustrations, of course - a lá Frank Carson "it's the way (you) tell 'em". "Look at the photos as they are part of the description" - I did, look at the photos, I did expect, they would form at least part of the description, too, but, no - I came to regret, looking at the photos. Any amount of blurry, over-exposed, under-saturated, wrongly-oriented images, I just click 'back' and look elsewhere. You are so right, they know nothing and care even less - their lack of care, concern, interest, even involvement in the selling process, leaves me cold. The ignorant have no excuse, as they surely know, that the AI-nonsense is not indicating any selling point - unique, or otherwise, and the lazy, well, there's no fixin' them...they, are stunning and (not-so) rare, no doubt with random bits missing from their edges, too!