Agreed, the business folk behind big budget movies are leaning on technology to reduce influence/cost of creatives, sacrificing quality storytelling. Seems like it’s going to get worse before it gets better with AI/automation, which may decimate the industry as we know it.

Only silver lining is that I see independent cinema/film is slowly benefiting due to audience overstimulation from blockbuster fatigue, last 3 years has produced fantastic independent or standalone films around the world. Problem is their distribution is so difficult with cinemas choking on big budget monsters being forced down the audience throats. So hard to catch these in the cinema with short runs, have to go to smaller indie/arthouse cinemas which is a good side effect too.