I haven't had the same experiences as you regarding "the old way" of doing things, but I can provide my take as a content creator today. ... wow! It's simply a

I haven't had the same experiences as you regarding "the old way" of doing things, but I can provide my take as a content creator today. ... wow! It's simply always amazing to me that I can turn on a cheap mirrorless camera and get sharp, clean footage. That footage is fed into my PC. I feed in a "cheap" USB microphone and get crisp audio. OBS takes all of this, and every other asset I throw at it, and combines it all into a live stream of video and audio... in real-time. And then I stream it to the rest of the planet in less than 100ms. A friend of mine is learning Unreal Engine 5 right now. Meta Humans are just crazy good. The real-time lighting in the engine is f-ing bonkers! And the fact there are tens of thousands of high poly, free models as well as high-res scans for materials (textures) just blows my mind. What a time to be alive.