I don’t think that it existed prior to the 20th century. I think it’s tied into the end of the preindustrial world and the industrialization/technological revolution of the 19th/20th/21st centuries. It is a small manifestation of a much larger shift in western culture. Think of it like the transition from artisanal cottage industry to mass production factories. You transition from working when you want on handmade pieces to a factory environment that’s governed by clocks and timetables and train schedules and punch cards and quarterly reports and currency exchange rates. If the goal is to bring the maximum benefit to the most people for the lowest cost, unequivocally the industrialized approach to production is far superior, but there is a sort of sentimental nostalgic value to the way things were done before, you know? And it is the same with chess. Unequivocally, if you want to win, materialistic/hypermodern chess is superior to romantic chess. Sorry, this was a little longwinded, but I think it’s an interesting subject.