What a baseball card looks like -- exactly!!! And smells like!!
There is definitely a wide range of card quality that can make them look pretty bad and flimsy, but when you get a good or great one they are stunning with t.e bright colored circus on acid font at the top, and some teams/colors work better than others. The Mattingly, Puckett, Ozzie Smith, and Terry Pendleton cards have outstanding photos (the Puckett one shows you exactly why/how Puckett could hit the ball with power at such a short stature). But then you also have (my personal favorite) Jorge Bell just chillin in the dugout rockin a rally cap and gold chain, that one where the two guys are jumping together down the basepath presumably with a winning run, and the Dave Stewart card with the intense stare that feels like he is looking right at and through you. Its just a wide range that I think is super fun when you flip through a set in your hands, it takes you to different places with the markedly differing photos. True, some are bad, but they can be almost comically bad and add to the fun.
I think for pretty much all of the great players and hall of famers, and parrticulary those who started in 80s, the 86 Topps is basically their second best card, which I think has some value.
I think the overproduction issue isn't really an issue -- sure, they made a ton, but how many good ones did they make? And then how many good ones will exist year after year with the condition-sensitive nature of the cards and the fact that most people aren't going to be taking the greatest care of them. I really think they will be very rare in the foreseeable future.