Technical quality is not the same thing as photographic quality.
A photograph can be perfectly sharp, correctly exposed and beautifully processed and still feel like nothing.
Another photograph can have technical imperfections and be far more interesting.
Technical Quality Is the Floor
Focus matters.
Exposure matters.
Color matters.
But those things are mostly preventing failure.
They do not automatically create meaning.
Something Has to Happen
A photograph usually becomes interesting because of a relationship or moment.
Light falls in an unusual way.
Someone makes an expression.
An animal does something unexpected.
Two unrelated objects suddenly create a visual connection.
The frame contains tension.
You cannot create all of that with sharpening.
Editing Cannot Invent the Moment
You can improve a photograph in post-processing.
You can improve contrast, color and composition.
But if the original frame has no reason to exist, editing usually just makes an empty photograph more polished.
That is still an empty photograph.
What Actually Matters
Before asking whether a photograph is technically good, ask why you care about it.
If you cannot answer that, more pixels probably will not help.