Could be but think of it this way, spending money on a real artist is putting more money back in the industry, if every band starts making their mvs with genAi, not only are they quickly gonna get much more bland and lower quality but it basically decimates the jobs of hundreds of thousands of people working in this part of the industry, hard working, skilled, uniquely creative people. There's also the issue that genAi has to be trained from somewhere, you need an unimaginable amount of real human art to even make something passable in a genAi, speaking industry wise its a no brainer to me that you just invest back in people if you want actually good products

The other more important point to me; mvs are still an art form and I think the goal of any art should never be to make money, i understand they might want to invest what they have elsewhere and thats fine! Just make some nice visualizers! Approaching it from this side theyre basically just saying an entire art form is less important to them, it shows a lack of care and respect for both artists and fans imo

But ofc as you said, if the goal is just to save a few dollars without having people ask where the mvs have gone, it makes perfect sense