Did something happen in the past 86 years that now makes it impossible to shoot the same, great pictures with that camera?

Well, yes? The massive infrastructure built to support film photography disappeared. It’s an incredibly expensive and fairly niche medium now, and one that does not have anything like a robust market to support a professional on. It’s little more than a gimmick at this point - one that could produce great art absolutely, but one with a microscopically niche appeal and that would see you starved on the street if you tried to support yourself with it.

Anyways, yes I said art is expensive - twice, in fact - what I never said is that art requires expensive tools (which it doesn’t). At the bare minimum art requires a vast investiture of that most precious resource, time, even if we’re to set aside all the concerns with other expenses. Doing art professionally though, that needs the high quality tools to deliver the consistent and rapid results.

Being totally honest here though, I am incredibly skeptical of anyone who acts like they can decide what is and is not art. It’s difficult to take their philosophical outlook seriously when they’re comfortable passing judgment on that.