[chrissix666]

@chrissix  I'm a little confused here.  If my movies and artwork are all in the same directory, how is the hard drive not accessed if art is cached?  Gotta access the hard drive to watch the movie.  I thought the purpose of the cache is to cut down on internet access, helping those that have a metered internet account and the hosting servers.?  For me, I use Kodi to watch TV, movies and listen to music.  I'm just not that into looking at all my artwork.

What I have described concerns purely extrafanart.

Simple example:
Unplug your media hard drives, start Kodi:

If you use extrafanart the first (common) way i described you will not see any extrafanart any more or in best case 1 left - even if it's prechached in Thumbnails folder.
-> Point 5.1 https://kodi.wiki/view/Movie_artwork#Loc...ie_artwork
If you use extrafanart the second way i described you will see all - if its prechached in Thumbnails folder
-> Point 5.2 https://kodi.wiki/view/Movie_artwork#Loc...ie_artwork

If you do everything locally, that does not make that much difference, although the performance is faster and the disks are spared.
But if you have your media on NAS/SERVER system this difference is very important.

Unfortunately, my english skills are somewhat limited and therefore did not completely understand your question. But there are many skins where the main focus is on artwork, as well there are basic skins.
Everything pure matter of taste. I have some nieces and nephews who visit me often. They can not read yet and look for the movie they want to watch based on the artwork they see. They like that when Kodi looks very playful. And me too. Countless people fill the artwork databases of fanart.tv and tmdb every day, content is there, api support is there, so there is not much talk against developing some skins in this direction.