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Bokeh is often understood as a quality feature of images, as good photographers, high-quality equipment and simply beautiful images are associated with it, which is not common for the images of the general public. In my opinion, today bokeh is considerably more important to many, which has its justification, since bokeh can be beautiful and lead to a pleasing image. On the other hand, sometimes I have the impression that images are created only because of soft background and many other possible facets of image composition are even completely ignored. Subject isolation can also achieved with contrasts, brightness or color differences, rim light and shadows - and good shots often use several isolation techniques where simply a shallow dof may not be sufficient or pleasing. Viewers easily recognize silhouettes and shapes, even when everything is tack sharp.
I shoot with wider apertures if, for example, bridal people wish like that or if a few people should be isolated from a group, with great results. Nevertheless, with a shallow dof I generally have the impression of giving up space in which I can present something supporting, a counter-object, vanishing lines or similar things that give a feel of depth. I rarely take pictures in which blur is prominent, but this is also due to the genres of landscape and architectural photography.
