Regular pic and same pic changed. Is it ruined or made better?

Mexican orange flower is a nice natural pic. Mexican orange flowers with poster edges on a gradient background is a colourful art pic.

Its all in the eye of the beholder i guess.  I like both versions and think theres a time and a place for both. Maybe because its still so new and awesome to be able to do these kinds of things.

Quince flower with ladybug is a nice pic.

Quince flower with ladybug with posterized edges is an odd thing but in a good way nice pic.

The neat thing is that with Photoshop techniques the volume can be turned up or down as one feels in that moment. In creating real art i rarely use bright colours or hard lines or edges prefering to remain the pastel queen and my fav projects were the ones titled something like "white on white" and i'd turn every project into at least "all pale"
Now here i am all of a sudden enjoying making these rather garish pictures and wonder why is this?
Am i still changing and growing after all these years?