I agree with your take mostly. But also, some things are getting better work-wise like video/image editing. Where something can take an animator a week or two n

I agree with your take mostly. But also, some things are getting better work-wise like video/image editing. Where something can take an animator a week or two now takes all of 1 minute or less. Some startups in the motion capture space are doing some wild things and in a few years even small indie game studios will have mocap parity with AAAs.