It’s not “awe-inspiring 8K”, it’s much more likely going to be “shoot 8K for awe-inspiring 4k”.

4k is primarily a tool used to create high quality, 4:4:4 video for viewing in 1080p. Many users are also using it as a tool to create a bit of a buffer for clean zooms and pans. Very, very, *very* few people are using 4k for display in 4k. The dominant display resolution by a landslide is still 1080p.

So video is typically prepared for the 1080p format.

However, 4k displays *are* becoming more common, so 8k will be used to shoot 4:2:2 or 4:2:0 video for display in 4K at 4:4:4 or 4:4:2, as is currently done for 4k.

It will be several years before 4K is the common standard for displays. It will probably be 6 or 7 years before 8K is the common standard.

For serious shooters, this is how they view it. For non-serious shooters, 8K is a gimmick, a fancy bell and whistle to make people go “oooh” and “aaah” while watching 8K video on a 4k or 1080p screen.