This isn't the first time that I've seen interestingness treated like a virtue.

Honestly, I like it and agree that it makes a very good virtue.

But at the same time, I don't think we have a good enough collective understanding of what it means for something to be interesting to use it this way. Complexity isn't noise or quantity. It's also not exactly measured by our emotional or cognitive response to something. It's kind of measured that way, but in a noisy and unreliable way if that makes sense?

Anyways, go read Godel Escher Bach. Much more interesting than anything I've got to say on the matter.

Also, chill out. It's not a competition.