Production budgets for AAA content are higher precisely because small players can now compete on quality with the old acceptable quality levels for AAA, so the

Production budgets for AAA content are higher precisely because small players can now compete on quality with the old acceptable quality levels for AAA, so the spectacle has to grow along a non-linear curve (twice as amazing costs more than twice as much). There's a good case to be made that rising amateur quality drives larger and larger mega-blockbusters.