I think the snobbism over whether these images are grainy is a bit unnecessary. So many of us either buy plugins that emulate the look of Kodak or Fuji grain, just to name a few. Or add purple filters from Instagram and call it exploration, or an of focus image Modern Art. Worse, sometimes a person might say that an image looked “too clean” and a little grain might make the image “more filmic”. 

Sometimes, us photographers are not only our own worst critics, but our most ungrateful audience.

although the pictures look kind of soft and noisy?