Purists can be counted on to rant that there's no art to it at all, that any three year old can cut and paste pictures on a computer.
Techies fire back a volley of retorts about the purists living in the stone age.
Then it escalates, and goes on and on. I won't say I've never thrown in my two cents worth, but most often I'm the amused observer. In essence, both sides are absolutely right, and in fact, both sides are dead wrong. If you poke around enough, it's not hard to find some exceptional digital work on the net, but you'll wade through a quagmire of clip-art to get to it. Artists who haven't embraced the new digital medium are by no means stone wielding grunts.